Blyth v. Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Laramie County, HoN. Richard H. Scott, Judge. This action was brought in the District Court by William A. Pinkerton, and Robert A. Pinkerton, co-partners, doing business under the firm name of Pinkerton National Detect-iv'e Agency, against John H. Ward, Charles E. Stone and Thomas Blyth, to recover for certain services alleged to have been rendered by said plaintiffs, at the special instance and request of the defendants.
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Error to the District Court, Laramie County, HoN. Richard H. Scott, Judge. This action was brought in the District Court by William A. Pinkerton, and Robert A. Pinkerton, co-partners, doing business under the firm name of Pinkerton National Detect-iv'e Agency, against John H. Ward, Charles E. Stone and Thomas Blyth, to recover for certain services alleged to have been rendered by said plaintiffs, at the special instance and request of the defendants. On the trial judgment was rendered for the amount claimed against said defendants, Blyth and Stone. They separately moved for new trial, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Knight, Justice.
This action was brought in the District Court by defendants in error as plaintiffs against plaintiffs in error and one John H. Ward as defendants, by a petition of a single count, alleging “that the defendants herein jointly and severally promised to pay to the plaintiff the sum of eight dollars per day and expenses for each operative sent out by plaintiffs to perform certain investigations in the matter of the murder of one Harvey Booth in Evanston, State of Wyoming, on or about January 27th, 1895. That at the special in*142stance and request of the defendants, and at the special…
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