Platter v. Green
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Cowley District Court. At the December Term, 1880, of the district court, M. T. Creen, E. T. Williamson and Geo. L. Pratt, partners as the Chicago Lumber Company, recovered a judgment against Jas. E. Platter and two others, who bring the case here. The opinion contains a statement of the facts., 1. If the instrument sued upon be read without the words “at once,” it can, by no reasonable construction, be tortured into meaning more than a single transaction.
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Error from Cowley District Court. At the December Term, 1880, of the district court, M. T. Creen, E. T. Williamson and Geo. L. Pratt, partners as the Chicago Lumber Company, recovered a judgment against Jas. E. Platter and two others, who bring the case here. The opinion contains a statement of the facts., 1. If the instrument sued upon be read without the words “at once,” it can, by no reasonable construction, be tortured into meaning more than a single transaction. We therefore conclude that the extent of the liability imposed on these plaintiffs by said instrument depends largely, nay,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This cause was tried in the court below upon the following agreed statement of facts:
“Now come the parties to the above-entitled cause, by their respective attorneys, and submit said cause to the court for its decision and judgment, on the following agreed statement of facts, to wit:
“ 1st. That at the commencement of this action, and at the several times hereinafter mentioned, the plaintiffs were and now are copartners, doing business under the firm-name of the Chicago Lumber Company, and were engaged in the business of selling lumber and…
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