Ardesco Oil Co. v. Richardson & Tack
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of AllegheMy county: No. 61, to October and November Term 1869. The Ardesco Oil Company, on the 31st of January 1868, instituted an action of assumpsit against Samuel Richardson and Theodore E. Tack for an alleged breach of a contract, of which the parts material to this case are as follows:— “ Articles of agreement, made this 22d day of January 1866, between The Ardesco Oil Company of the first part, and Samuel Richardson and Theodore E. Tack of…
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Error to the District Court of AllegheMy county: No. 61, to October and November Term 1869. The Ardesco Oil Company, on the 31st of January 1868, instituted an action of assumpsit against Samuel Richardson and Theodore E. Tack for an alleged breach of a contract, of which the parts material to this case are as follows:— “ Articles of agreement, made this 22d day of January 1866, between The Ardesco Oil Company of the first part, and Samuel Richardson and Theodore E. Tack of the second part, witness: That the said party of the first part hereby lease and let to the said parties of the second…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 22d 1869, by
Read, J. —
The plaintiffs were the owners of a large refining works on the Ohio river, and had erected on their premises an oil tank for storing crude petroleum in the spring of 1865. It had iron sides and a wooden bottom, and held about 13,000 barrels of oil. Before it had been used by the plaintiffs, by a rise in the river, and the water getting under it, the bottom was injured and it could not be used without repairs. The ground on which it stood had been selected by the plaintiffs, and it turned out from its position and the…
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