Church v. Proctor
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island. This was an action by Joseph O. Proctor, Jr., against Daniel T. Church and others, to recover damages for breach of a contract. On the trial in the circuit court, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. Defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
At the time the parties entered into the contract involved in this controversy, Proctor, the plaintiff below, was engaged in a general fishing business at Gloucester, in the state of Massachusetts, and in preparing and placing on the general market different kinds of fish, and especially in splitting and slivering a fish called “menhaden,” and placing the same upon the market; and the defendants, at Tiverton, in the state of Rhode Island, were engaged in the business of catching and supplying *241menhaden, aiid possessed superior facilities for so doing. On the 3d day of…
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