Allen v. Field
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause is brought here by writ of error from a judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, entered upon a verdict by the jury in favor of plaintiff for $50,000 damages for breach of contract. The plaintiff in the court below has died since the commencement of the action, and his estate is represented on this appeal by his executors.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
Prior to the commencement of this action, plaintiff was a distiller of whiskey in Kentucky. The defendants are wholesale dealers in whiskey at New York. The negotiations between the parties herein appear from the record to have been opened by a letter from defendants to plaintiff, stating that, as they had sold their Louisville distilleries to the Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Company, and must have goods to substitute for those whiskeys, which they no longer handled, if they could make some arrangement with him to control the output of his house, under an…
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