Mississippi Valley Fuel Co. v. Watson Coal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois; Francis M. Wright, Judge. Action at law by the Watson Coal Company against the Mississippi Valley Fuel Company and the American Surety Company of New York. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois; Francis M. Wright, Judge. Action at law by the Watson Coal Company against the Mississippi Valley Fuel Company and the American Surety Company of New York. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. The plaintiffs in error were defendants below in a suit at law, brought by tlie defendant in error for recovery upon a bond, executed by the plaintiffs in error in its favor; and this writ of error is prosecuted from a judgment entered, pursuant to the verdict of a jury “impaneled to hear the evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Under the writ of error no question is presented whether a meritorious controversy arose between the parties over liability upon the bond in suit, and it goes without saying" that tender of defense thereto was not needful, if reversible error appears in overruling both of the pleas interposed, respectively by one and the other defendant below. Whether want of jurisdiction over, the defendant Mississippi Valley Fuel Company (hereinafter mentioned as the Fuel Company), principal in the joint and several bond, if well pleaded, would require disturbance of the…
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