Legal Opinion
McGowan v. Lamb
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided July 7, 1887PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Error to Kent. (Montgomery, J.) Assumpsit. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are stated in the opinions.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
The defendant in error is a commission merchant doing business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and residing there. Frank J. Lamb & Go. reside and do business in Grand Rapids, in this State.
The controversy in this suit grows out of a car-load of onions shipped by Lamb & Co. to McGowan to sell for them on commission in December, 1885. McGowan disposed of the onions, some 420 bushels, and brought the plaintiffs in debt to the amount of about $46.
On the fifteenth of July, 1886, McGowan commenced suit before Justice Westfall at Grand Rapids by summons for this balance. Attached to this summons was an…
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