Legal Opinion
Moses v. Taylor
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 20, 1888No. 24,547PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Motion by defendant for a new trial on a bill of exceptions. The Facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cox
This case presents quite a complicated record, and it was argued with great ability and with a great display of learning, principally on questions of a technical character. ' It would be impossible within any reasonable space of time to review the vast number of authorities that have been cited, and we shall only state .some general conclusions.
*264The suit was brought on the 13th of June, 1883. The original declaration contains three counts: in the first one the plaintiff sets forth, in substance, that prior to the 22d of January, 1881, at the special instance and request of the defendant, the…
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