Pelzer Manuf'g Co. v. Hamburg-Bremen Fire Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
This was a suit, originally commenced in a court of the state of South Carolina, by the Pelzer Manufacturing Company against the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company, to reform a judgment. A motion to remand was denied (62 Fed. 1), and a demurrer to the bill was overruled. The cause was now heard on the pleadings and proofs.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.
The case now comes up for final hearing on bill and answer, with the testimony. It is a cause of unusual character. Generally, when judgments at law are brought before this court, the defendant is the complainant, seeking to be relieved therefrom on some ground of equity. In the present case, the plaintiff at law seeks reformation of the judgment, or relief against injustice done to it by the judgment. The complainant was the owner of a large quantity of cotton in bales, stored in the warehouse of Cely Bros., at Greenville, S. O. The contfaet between the complainant…
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