Minchen v. Hart
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa. This action was brought in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of Iowa, by Hart, Scbaffner & Marx, against W. T. Minchen, to recover $3,447.75, the value of certain goods sold by the plaintiffs to Jonas Nichols upon the following written guaranty of the defendant. “Carroll.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa. This action was brought in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of Iowa, by Hart, Scbaffner & Marx, against W. T. Minchen, to recover $3,447.75, the value of certain goods sold by the plaintiffs to Jonas Nichols upon the following written guaranty of the defendant. “Carroll. Iowa, August 14, 1893. “Hart, Scbaffner & Marx, Chicago — Gentlemen: I will guaranty the payment of such purchases as Jonas Nichols may make of you in the line of merchandise in [which] you deal for this…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, Circuit Judge
Exceptions were taken to the admission of the testimony of one of the plaintiffs, to the effect that he acknowledged, by letter, the receipt of the defendant’s letter of guaranty, and that he sold Nichols the goods on a credit on the faith of that guaranty. The only objection interposed at the time to the admission of this testimony was the common, if not meaningless, formula, that it was “incompetent, immaterial, and irrelevant.” It was clearly material and relevant, and why it was incompetent was not stated. The exception, therefore, goes for nothing. If a reason had been *295given why it was…
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