Legal Opinion
Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Marchant Calculating Mach. Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 27, 1947No. 478PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOOD, Associate Judge.
Several individuals, trading as Equitable Credit Company, and their agent, one Swett, sued Marchant Calculating Machine Co. for $636, the price of a calculating machine ordered and paid for by Swett as agent of the Credit Company; which machine was alleged not to have been delivered. The Marchant Company, admitting that the machine had been ordered and paid for, answered that it had been shipped through the Railway Express Agency and delivered to Swett. The Marchant Company also filed a third party complaint, naming the Express Agency as third party defendant, alleging…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Union Pacific Railroad v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
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