Bancroft v. Scribner
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, of New York, brought an action against A. L. Bancroft, of San Francisco, to recover moneys claimed to be due, and liquidated damages for the breach of two certain contracts for the sale by subscription of certain books which they had published. The trial resulted in a judgment for the plaintiffs for the recovery of the liquidated damages, in the sum of $7,734.49.
There are three principal assignments of error. The first is that the court instructed the jury that the contracts were not assignable by Bancroft. From the bill of exceptions, it…
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