Thorn Wire Hedge Co. v. Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS 'FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. In the year 1875 the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, a Massachusetts corporation doing .business at Worcester, Massachusetts, was engaged extensively in the manufacture of wire.
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APPEALS 'FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. In the year 1875 the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, a Massachusetts corporation doing .business at Worcester, Massachusetts, was engaged extensively in the manufacture of wire. Having had its attention directed to barbed fence wire, an article then little known or used-, the company determined to begin the making of it, conceiving that the future demand for such wire might serve to increase the output of its mill. There being no machine then in use for making barbed wire by steam power, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
This record contains nearly thirteen hundred pages, consisting chiefly of evidence. There were no findings of facts, nor did the court below file any opinion. It has hence been necessary to make a long statement, of no interest except to the parties, which will occupy many pages of the reports.
The Thorn Wire Hedge Company sought, by its bill of complaint, to compel the Washburn and Moen Company to account for moneys claimed to be due under certain contracts subsisting between the companies.
It was one of the provisions of those contracts that the Washburn and Moen Company should pay, at a…
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