City of Lincoln v. Sun Vapor Street-Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The city of Lincoln, Neb., the plaintiff in error, insists that the circuit court for the district of Nebraska erred in rendering judgment against it for damages for the breach of a contract between that city and the Sun Vapor Street-Light Company of Canton, Ohio, the defendant in error. The contract .was for lighting the city of Lincoln. The case was tried to a jury, and the judgment is upon the verdict. In this court it was not argued orally, hut was submitted on briefs. When the writ of error was sued out, counsel for the city assigned 21 errors.
The twenty-fourth…
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