Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Goss
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States- for the District of Minnesota; Charles A. Willard, Judge. Action at law by M. N. Goss and A. K. Sleeger, copartners as Goss &'Sleeger, against the Northern Pacific Railway Company. From the judgment both parties bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States- for the District of Minnesota; Charles A. Willard, Judge. Action at law by M. N. Goss and A. K. Sleeger, copartners as Goss &'Sleeger, against the Northern Pacific Railway Company. From the judgment both parties bring error. Ooss & Sleeger, plaintiffs below, were a firm of contractors and builders of St. Paul, Minn. ' Sleeger, the more practical member of the firm, had been engaged in this business for a period of 11 or 12 years as superintendent and inspector of construction for others, and as a builder and contractor both independently…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Valkenburgh, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). For convenience the several causes of action will be taken up in their inverse order:
*909[1] 1. It is agreed that upon the completion of the work defendant owed the plaintiffs a balance of $2,220.84 on contract price and for extra work. This was due and payable March 30, 1909; therefore, legal interest should run from that date, unless circumstances intervened which justified the railway company in withholding payment. The defendant coupled its tender with insistence upon a receipt releasing defendant from all claims of every kind and description arising out of…
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