Cooper v. Schlesinger
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, by the defendants in error, trading as Naylor & Co., against the plaintiffs in error, trading as George Cooper & Co. The suit was brought to recover the sum of $570.56, with interest from March 5th, 1877, for goods sold, part of which was a quantity of star spring steel.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, by the defendants in error, trading as Naylor & Co., against the plaintiffs in error, trading as George Cooper & Co. The suit was brought to recover the sum of $570.56, with interest from March 5th, 1877, for goods sold, part of which was a quantity of star spring steel. Cooper & Co. set up, in their answer to the petition, as a defence, counterclaim and set-off, that the star spring steel was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
After reciting the foregoing facts he continued:
The only exceptions presented by the bill of exceptions are to the charge of the court to the jury. The entire charge is set out. There is a general exception by the defendants to the charge, but that is of no avail. "Where a charge embraces several distinct propositions, a general exception is of no effect if any one of them is correct. Lincoln v. Claflin, 7 Wall. 132, 139. The defendants did except, however, to the four distinct parts of the charge which are below put in brackets, and they also excepted generally to the rule given as to the…
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