Walters v. Slimmer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United' States for the Eastern División of the Northern District of Illinois. Action at law by Abraham Slimmer and Lane G. Thomas, partners as Slimmer & Thomas, against Arthur A. Walters, Charles A. Dunbar, .and James H. Dunbar, partners as Walters & Dunbar. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United' States for the Eastern División of the Northern District of Illinois. Action at law by Abraham Slimmer and Lane G. Thomas, partners as Slimmer & Thomas, against Arthur A. Walters, Charles A. Dunbar, .and James H. Dunbar, partners as Walters & Dunbar. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error. This is a writ of error sued out to reverse a judgment rendered against the plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called the defendants, for the sale value •of 74 head of steers, which they had sold for the account of John H. Jahn. It appears that on…
1Opinion of the CourtFitzhenry, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The evidence offered, but excluded, of which the defendants complain of being denied the benefit, referred to the financial irresponsibility of Jahn and numerous real estate transactions in which the mortgagor had been engaged through a number of prior years, and previous dealings between the plaintiffs and Jahn. The financial ability or irresponsibility of a mortgagor, where it is clear the mortgagees relied upon the mortgage security, was clearly immaterial and the production of this testimony was an effort to bring to the attention of the jury…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Shapard v. HynesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1900
- Hoyt v. ZibellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1919
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