Farnum v. Pitcher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity filed April 28, 1885, by the members of the firm of Farnum, Reardon, and Company, doing business in Boston as commission merchants, against Frank C. Pitcher and Milford N. Cottle, copartners doing business there under the style of Cottle, Pitcher, and Company, to recover for losses by the plaintiffs in the purchase and sale of corn on the Chicago Board of Trade for the defendants upon orders of the defendant Pitcher, and for storage, insurance, and their…
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Bill in equity filed April 28, 1885, by the members of the firm of Farnum, Reardon, and Company, doing business in Boston as commission merchants, against Frank C. Pitcher and Milford N. Cottle, copartners doing business there under the style of Cottle, Pitcher, and Company, to recover for losses by the plaintiffs in the purchase and sale of corn on the Chicago Board of Trade for the defendants upon orders of the defendant Pitcher, and for storage, insurance, and their commissions as brokers. The answer of Pitcher, who alone defended, admitted giving the orders, but set up that the sales and…
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
While thirteen issues were submitted to the jury, they were to be answered under such instructions from the presiding judge, in matter of law, as a proper examination and decision of them required. If, as the legal result of the facts as they appeared, it was required that the issues presented, or any of them, should be answered in a particular manner, he might properly direct that such answer should be returned. If, by the answers to certain questions, it necessarily followed that others involved in or related to them should be answered in a particular manner, he might properly so instruct…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Weinstein v. MillerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
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