Legal Opinion
Alexander Pickering & Co. v. Chinese American Cold Storage Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 15, 1934No. 7142PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, a British corporation, brought suit to recover damages from the appellee, an American corporation, for breach of a purported written contract. A copy of the contract was attached to the complaint, and was admitted by the pleadings to be a true copy.
The court below rendered judgment for the appellee on the sole ground that the “contract * * * Was void and unenforceable from its inception.”
The case was tried to the court, sitting without a jury. The bill of exceptions does not contain an exception to the ruling that the purported contract was void for…
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