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Bull v. Schuberth

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided June 15, 1852PublishedCited by 17 opinions

This is an action of assumpsit, brought by Schuberth against Bull, under the following circumstances, on December 26th, 1843. Bull being an eminent performer upon the violin, and Schuberth, a music dealer of Hamburg, in Germany, they agreed to make a musical tour through the United States, and accordingly executed a written agreement to that effect on the 10th of October 1843. A proper translation of that, agreement will be found on pages 8 and 9 of the record, and it will…

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This is an action of assumpsit, brought by Schuberth against Bull, under the following circumstances, on December 26th, 1843. Bull being an eminent performer upon the violin, and Schuberth, a music dealer of Hamburg, in Germany, they agreed to make a musical tour through the United States, and accordingly executed a written agreement to that effect on the 10th of October 1843. A proper translation of that, agreement will be found on pages 8 and 9 of the record, and it will appear thereby (article 2) that Schuberth was to arrange and direct the concerts, and undertake and attend to the concert…

1Opinion of the CourtMason, J.

This is an action of assumpsit, instituted by the appellee against the appellant, under the following circumstances: Ole B. Bull, the celebrated fiddler, or (in his own more fashionable and elegant parlance,) “Knight, violin virtuose,” agreed with *54Julius Schuberth, a music dealer of Hamburgh, in Germany, to make a musical tour through the United States, and accordingly executed a written agreement for that purpose, on the 10th of October 1843. That agreement is in the following words: “Contract between Ole Bull, knight, violin virtuose, Norwegian and Julius Schuberth, music dealer of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kerr v. PotterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1848

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Vincent v. PalmerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1941
  2. De Forest v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1897
  3. Skeens v. MillerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1993
  4. Palmer v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1945
  5. Meyer v. FrenkilCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1910

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