Lincoln v. Claflin
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the Northern District of Illinois. Claflin and others brought an action on the case against two defendants' Lincoln and Mileham, for fraudulently obtaining the property of the plaintiff^, alleging a combination and prearrangement between them, by which Mileham purchased goods to a large amount of different parties in New York, and among others of the plaintiffs, upon false and fraudulent representations of his means and business, and Lincoln…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the Northern District of Illinois. Claflin and others brought an action on the case against two defendants' Lincoln and Mileham, for fraudulently obtaining the property of the plaintiff^, alleging a combination and prearrangement between them, by which Mileham purchased goods to a large amount of different parties in New York, and among others of the plaintiffs, upon false and fraudulent representations of his means and business, and Lincoln sold them at St. Louis, within a few days afterwards, at auction, for less than their cost price, and appropriated the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The bill of exceptions in this case is made up without1 any regard to the rules in accordance with which such bills should be framed. It is little else than a transcript of the evidence, oral and documentary, given at the trial, and covers ninety-six printed pages of the record, when the exceptions could have been presented with greater clearness and precision in any ñve of them. In its preparation counsel seem to have forgotten that this court does not pass, in actions at law, upon the credibility or sufficiency of testimony; that these are matters' which are left to the jury, and for any…
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