Legal Opinion
Holyoke Water Power Co. v. American Writing Paper Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 2, 1935No. 5932PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLELLAN, District Judge.
The plaintiff seeks to recover rentals payable January 2, 1934, at Holyoke, Mass., under seventeen indentures for the lease of mill powers. A single indenture concededly may be taken for practical purposes as typical of all. The semiannual rental payable under one of these indentures is stated to be “a quantity of gold equal in amount to $1,-500.00 of the gold coin of the United States of the standard of weight and fineness of the year 1894, or the equivalent of this commodity in currency.”
The defendant contends that its obligation amounted to $1,500, and if this…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Cahen v. . PlattNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Grand Tower Co. v. PhillipsSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Drake v. WhiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Glaspy v. CabotMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Setton v. Eberle-Albrecht Flour Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1919
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Holyoke Water Power Co. v. American Writing Paper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Holyoke Water Power Co. v. American Writing Paper Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1936
- In re American Writing Paper Co.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1935