Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam Packet Co. v. Sickles
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the County of Washington.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the County of Washington. It came up upon a bill of exceptions to the admission of certain evidence, and four bills of exceptions to refusals of the court below to grant certain prayers, all of which exceptions were taken by the defendants below (the plaintiffs in error here). But as two of the last-named bills of exceptions were not pressed in this court, it is not necessary to state them, or to state more of the case than is sufficient to show the points…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
Sickles and Cook, plaintiffs below, filed their declaration in assumpsit, containing two counts.
The first sets forth a parol contract made with William Gun-ton, president of the steamboat company and general agent thereof, in which it was agreed that the plaintiffs should construct and place on board the steamboat Columbia a certain machine invented by Sickles, called a “ cut-off,” at their own cost; that the machine should be tried, and, if it was found to produce any saving of fuel, that the cost of putting it in operation, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, should be first paid…
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