Manitoba Fish Co. v. Booth
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The Manitoba Fish Company, a Canadian corporation doing business in the province of Manitoba, owned freehold and leasehold premises, docks, wharves, piers, rights of way, railways, sidings, easements, railroad and other franchises, buildings, sheds, erections, stock in trade and merchandise, stores, fittings, office fixtures, furniture, plant, machinery, and…
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In error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The Manitoba Fish Company, a Canadian corporation doing business in the province of Manitoba, owned freehold and leasehold premises, docks, wharves, piers, rights of way, railways, sidings, easements, railroad and other franchises, buildings, sheds, erections, stock in trade and merchandise, stores, fittings, office fixtures, furniture, plant, machinery, and other property described, and on August 18, 1888, made with William Vernon Booth a contract for the sale and transfer…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
The first and second specifications of error, if otherwise good, are not available, because, by amending any count of the declaration, the plaintiff lost all right to question a previous ruling upon demurrer thereto. If any count remained unamended, the record should have been made to show the fact, and error should have been specified separately upon the ruling thereon; or, if more than one, then upon the ruling on each severally. On the record before us it is not an easy task to locate or determine the context of the several amendments to the declaration. If counsel are willing to risk the…
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- Watkins v. American Nat. BankCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904