Kloes v. Wurmser & Louis
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the JacJcson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Slovee, Judge. Statement of the case. This is an action of replevin for about five hundred dollars worth of window shades.
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Appeal from the JacJcson Circuit Court. — Hon. J. H. Slovee, Judge. Statement of the case. This is an action of replevin for about five hundred dollars worth of window shades. The parties concerned are, plaintiffs Kloes & Co., manufacturers of window shades, etc., New York City, defendants Wurmser & Louis, dealers in house furnishing goods, etc., at Kansas City, George Louis & Co., like dealers at Omaha, Nebraska, until about the time this controversy arose when said Omaha firm sold o ut their entire stock to the Kansas City firm. It seems that George Louis & Co. at Omaha contracted with…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
I. The principal matter complained of, in the trial before the circuit court, is the admission of the letter of Louis & Co., Omaha, above quoted, and upon which plaintiffs relied as a rescission of the contract of purchase. It is claimed that the letter was not sufficiently identified — that there was no proof of its execution.
It seems that at the trial the letter was read aloud, and in -the presence and hearing of one Jones, who was the book-keeper of Louis & Co., and whose business it was to write letters for the firm, and Jones on the stand, in effect, admitted that he wrote the letter,…
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