Forbes v. Scannell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth District. The main facts are stated in the opinion of the Court, but it is deemed best to insert those findings of the Court below, not stated: 1. That on the 8th or 10th day of March, a. n. 1856, the commercial house of Bye Brothers & Co. then and before that time doing business in Canton, China, had returned to them by the European Mail which arrived at Canton on one of those days, protested bills to the amount of thirty thousand pounds, (£30,000,)…
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Appeal from the Fourth District. The main facts are stated in the opinion of the Court, but it is deemed best to insert those findings of the Court below, not stated: 1. That on the 8th or 10th day of March, a. n. 1856, the commercial house of Bye Brothers & Co. then and before that time doing business in Canton, China, had returned to them by the European Mail which arrived at Canton on one of those days, protested bills to the amount of thirty thousand pounds, (£30,000,) drawn by the said house at Canton upon Frederick Hutk & Company, Bankers, at London, G-. B. and now the contesting…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Field, J. concurring.
Suit brought to recover damages of defendant for taking certain teas. The case is one of more than usual interest and importance. It involves principles novel in their application in this State, and it has been ably and fully argued at the bar and upon briefs. The general nature of the suit may .be thus stated: Eye *274Brothers & Co. were a mercantile firm, composed of citizens of the United States, residents of, and doing business in, Canton, China, before and on the 11th March, 1856, On that day they failed, when Gideon Bye, Jr. one of the firm, the only resident partner,…
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