Legal Opinion
Richmond Guano Co. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 7, 1922No. 1993PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
These cases were tried together and resulted in verdicts for the plaintiff for the amounts claimed. Like the case of Richmond Guano Co. v. W. R. Grace & Co., 284 Fed. 801, this day decided, they arise out of the nefarious sales of nitrate by W. B. Tredwell, but the issues are less simple. Other similar transactions of Tredwell were considered by us in Tredwell v. United States, 266 Fed. 350, and Whitehurst v. United States, 272 Fed. 46.
These facts are common to all the cases: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Incorporated, from 1915 to 1918, the period with which we are…
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