Legal Opinion

J. W. Ringrose Co. v. Sloane

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided April 22, 1921No. 2610PublishedCited by 1 opinion

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern. District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action by. the J. W. Ringrose Company against W. & J. Sloane. Judgment for defendant (266 Fed. 402), and plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

WOOUUFY, Circuit Judge.

In this action of assumpsit the plaintiff declared on an oral contract confirmed by correspondence. The court, regarding the contract as written and wholly embraced within the letters of the parties, entered judgment of nonsuit. 266 Fed. 402. The plaintiff sued out this writ of error.

The facts, shortly stated, are these:

The plaintiff, a Pennsylvania corporation, was a manufacturer of horse blankets; the defendant, a New York corporation, was a-jobber dealing in carpets and rugs manufactured by concerns whose output it controlled.

A horse blanket consists of two parts:…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. J. W. Ringrose Co. v. SloaneDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1920
  2. S. M. Hamilton Coal Co. v. New York & Philadelphia Coal & Coke Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1908

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Brown-Crummer Inv. Co. v. Koss Const. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1925

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