Dreifus v. Columbian Exposition Salvage Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 417, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from order of C. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., dismissing exceptions to referee’s report. Exceptions to referee’s report. The referee, E. Hunn Hanson, Esq., in his report, stated the facts as follows : The action was foreign attachment in assumpsit.
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Appeal, No. 417, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from order of C. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., dismissing exceptions to referee’s report. Exceptions to referee’s report. The referee, E. Hunn Hanson, Esq., in his report, stated the facts as follows : The action was foreign attachment in assumpsit. The plaintiffs’ statement filed claims to recover $6,600 with interest from November 23,1895, and alleges that on February 9,1895, the plaintiffs and defendant made a contract whereby the latter sold and agreed to deliver to the former 1,000 tons of melting stock from the World’s Fair buildings in Chicago,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
This suit was begun by foreign attachment, and at the hearing the issue took the form of an action of assumpsit. The cause was sent for trial to E. Hunn Hanson, Esq., as referee, to find facts and apply to them his conclusions of law; in effect, both his findings and conclusions are in favor of plaintiffs, and defendant appeals, alleging he erred in not finding for defendant and certifying a balance in its favor. The findings of fact are so full and so orderly stated by the learned referee, that it would be a useless labor to restate them at length in this opinion.…
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