Mack v. Porter

BRAWLEY, District Judge.

Tliis case is before us on a writ of error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Virginia, and grows out of exceptions taken and allowed at the trial, wherein John Porter, the defendant in error, was plaintiff, and recovered a verdict against John M. Mack and G. B. Boren, in an action of assumpsit on a special oral contract, originally brought in the circuit court of Hancock county, W. Va., and removed into the United States court on rhe ground of diversity of citizenship. The record discloses 18 exceptions, 13 of which relate to the…