Davis v. Carnegie Steel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Action by Frank B.. Davis and another against the Carnegie Steel Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Defendant in error (defendant below) had at its McDonald site, near Girard, Ohio, a large dump of furnace slag, amounting to many thousand tons and covering several acres; it had in connection with its Ohio steel plant, near Youngstown (a few *933miles from the McDonald site), another slag dump, much larger than the one at the latter site. Its daily dump oí slag from the Ohio plant alone was from 1,000 to 1,500 tons. Plaintiffs brought suit to recover damages for the breach of an alleged oral contract, whereby defendant, in consideration of plaintiffs’ agreement to remove…
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