H. D. Williams Cooperage Co. v. Scofield
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This Is an action for breach of contract.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This Is an action for breach of contract. William O. Scofield, Daniel Shurmer, John Teagle, and Charles W. Scofield, the defendants in error, sued the H. D. Williams Cooperage Company, the plaintiff in error, upon a contract whereby the defendant company had agreed to supply the plaintiffs “your entire requirements for new barrels during 1899 at the following points at the following prices”; also to supply “you with all the new barrels you may need at Kansas City for a period of one year from April first…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
No exceptions were saved to the admission or exclusion of evidence which require notice, but several errors are assigned as respects the instructions which were given and refused by the trial court, and concerning which the opinion of this court is invoked. An inspection of the bill of exceptions shows that, at the conclusion of the trial, counsel for the defendant company stated its objections to the charge in the following manner:
“Your honor, my first exception [to the charge] is as follows: * * • * That it practically eliminates from the consideration of the jury the testimony of Mr.…
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