Thomson Mach. Co. v. Sternberg
District Court, N.D. Illinois
1Opinion of the Court
WOODWARD, District Judge.
This matter came up for hearing on defendant’s exceptions to the-master’s report. Preceding the argument on the merits, counsel for plaintiff raised the preliminary question that the exceptions were indefinite and insufficient.
The matter in issue was largely a question of fact. The terms and conditions of a contract of employment were involved. The practical construction which the parties thereto had given the contract was also involved. The master’s report is a record of nearly five hundred pages of testimony and exhibits to the number of one hundred or more. The…
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- General Fire Extinguisher Co. v. LamarCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1905
- Neal v. BriggsU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern North Carolina · 1901
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