American Strawboard Co. v. Haldeman Paper Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio. Action by the Haldeman Paper Company against the American Strawboard Company for damages for breach of a contract to convey a mill property. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio. Action by the Haldeman Paper Company against the American Strawboard Company for damages for breach of a contract to convey a mill property. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. By an indenture of lease dated June 27, 1891, the American Strawboard Company, a corporation largely engaged in the manufacture of strawboard and other wood pulp products, and owning and operating a number of strawboard mills, demised to George N. Friend, his heirs and assigns, one of…
1Opinion of the CourtLubton, Circuit Judge
At the conclusion of all the evidence the jury was instructed to .find for the plaintiff, and to assess ii.s damages upon the proofs, under the further directions of the court then given. Several requests made by the defendant below were refused, including one to return a verdict in its favor.
The error assigned upon the insí ruction to find for the defendant in error involves the substance of the whole case. This instruction has been defended upon two distinct grounds: First, that the covenant of (he vendor to convey by warranty deed was broken by the tender to the vendee of a form of deed…
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