Denver Engineering Works Co. v. Elkin
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Action by the Denver Engineering Works Company against John P. Elkin and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In the court below the Denver Engineering Works Company, a corporation of Colorado, brought suit against John P. Elkin and T. F- Eyre, citizens of Pennsylvania, to recover $9,000, being the price of certain machinery sold by the plain*41tiff to the Tcrrenates Consolidated Mining Company of Arizona. The defendants were stockholders of the latter company and had guaranteed payment by it of such bill. They defended, on the ground that said account had been assigned by the plaintiff to one Meloy, and that, in performing a certain contract thereafter made between Meloy and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Elkin v. Denver Engineering Works Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1910