Flint v. Coffin
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville. Action by B. G. Coffin and E. M. MacDonald, partners as Coffin & MacDonald, against Charles R. Flint. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GOFF, Circuit Judge.
In the Superior Court of Swain county, N. C., the defendants in error commenced this suit against' the plaintiff in error and others to recover damages alleged to have been sustained because of breaches of certain contracts, charged to have been made in connection with the manufacture of timber into lumber, on certain lands located in said county. The summons issued on the 21st day of November, 1904, and was returned by the sheriff on the 28th of ^hat month indorsed as follows:
“Due search made, and none of the defendants found in my county.”
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