Loomis v. Smith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, containing two counts ; the first on a guaranty, the second for goods sold and delivered.
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This was an action of assumpsit, containing two counts ; the first on a guaranty, the second for goods sold and delivered. The cause tried, on the genera! issue, closed to the court, January term, 1845, before Williams, Ch. J. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved, that they were partners, under the firm of Loomis (f- Sheldon, as stated in the declaration'; and that, at the request of the defendant, they delivered the goods in question, at their shop in Sujfield, to John T. Knox and Jfonnand L. Knox, who were minors under the guardianship of the defendant, and were by him placed at the…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Ch, J.
The case comes up by agreement, as -if presented on a motion for a new trial, upon a charge to the jury ; not, however, because the evidence was not sufficient, but upon matters of law. The whole evidence is not detailed ; of course, the court cannot say whether it was sufficient. Although when we find, in the first letter, a general direction to furnish such articles as may be necessary, renewed in the last letter, by a request to the young man to say to Mr. Sheldon, that any necessaries he and his brother might want -hould be paid for, by the defendant, when he came,…
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