Gayton v. Day
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Action by Mrs. E. M. Day against Joseph H. Gaytorx and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
The action in the court below was brought by Mrs. E. M. Day, the defendant in error (hereinafter called the plaintiff), against Gayton and Heasley, the plaintiffs in error (hereinafter called the defendants), to recover damages which the plaintiff claimed to have suffered by reason of defendants’ breach of a contract to drill for the plaintiff a certain oil well in the state of Pennsylvania. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, and from the judgment on this verdict the defendants have sued out this writ of error.
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