Legal Opinion

Bemis v. Becker

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided August 15, 1862PublishedCited by 40 opinions

A statement of the facts of the ease appears in tlie opinion of the court. Wilson Shannon submitted: I. The contract of sale of the three hundred and ninety-four sacks of flour, was a contract in writing, entered into by Delahay, by his agent Stockton, on the one part, and Bemis, the defendant below, on the other. The contract cannot he altered, varied or changed by parol evidence. The representations or statements of Stockton, one of the firm of Becker & Co., hind the firm.

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A statement of the facts of the ease appears in tlie opinion of the court. Wilson Shannon submitted: I. The contract of sale of the three hundred and ninety-four sacks of flour, was a contract in writing, entered into by Delahay, by his agent Stockton, on the one part, and Bemis, the defendant below, on the other. The contract cannot he altered, varied or changed by parol evidence. The representations or statements of Stockton, one of the firm of Becker & Co., hind the firm. (Story on Partnership, 170; 2 Barn. cf* Aid., 795; Collyer on Partnership, 297, 298; Lucas vs. JDe la Coen, Maul ¿f*…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Bailey, J.

Petition in error to reverse the judgment of the United States district court sitting in Douglas county for the trial of causes arising under the laws of the late territory of Kansas, November term, 1860.

The original action was brought in the court below, to recover the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, alledged to have been due to the plaintiffs on the first day of April, 1858, for three hundred and ninety-four sacks of flour, before that time sold and delivered by plaintiffs to the defendant, at his request — plaintiffs claiming judgment for fifteen hundred dollars,…

2Cited by40 opinions

  1. State v. HillSupreme Court of Kansas · 1962
  2. Marriott Financial Services, Inc. v. Capitol Funds, Inc.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1975
  3. Pangborn v. WestlakeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
  4. Comm'rs of Leavenworth Co. v. MillerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1871
  5. Pen-Ken Gas & Oil Corp. v. Warfield Natural Gas Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1943

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