Mulhall v. Keenan
Supreme Court of the United States
Error- to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the cáse being thus: Keenan & Co. were residents of Chicago, and commission dealers in live stock there.
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Error- to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the cáse being thus: Keenan & Co. were residents of Chicago, and commission dealers in live stock there. On the 7th of July they gave "W. L. Tamblyn, then about to go to St. Louis .to buy cattle for them, a letter of introduction to Joseph Mulhall, a similar dealer of that place, and who previously, to this bad had dealing in cattle on his own account with Keenan & Co. The letter was in these words: Mr. Joseph Mulhall. Chicago, July 7th, 1870. 1 DeIr Sir: The bearer, W. L. Tamblyn, goes to your city to buy cattle, and any favors…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The defendants in error, under the name of Keenan & Co., sued Mulhall to recover a balance alleged to be due to them upon a draft drawn by him and accepted and paid by them;,! The parties waived the intervention of a jury, and submitted the cause to the court. The court found for the plaintiffs, and assessed their damages at $2336.26. Judgment was entered accordingly. There was no special finding of facts. A bill of exceptions in the record shows, that during the progress of the trial, the defendant excepted to the admission of evidence offered by the plaintiffs, and to the rejection of…
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