Hoffmann v. Mayaud
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Tn Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This action was brought by the defendants in error, Louis Mayaud and Theofile Hunte, citizens of France, and co-partners in business at Paris under the firm name of Mayaud Freres, against the plaintiffs in error, Joseph C. Hoffmann and Bernard Hoffmann, citizens and residents of Wisconsin. The action is upon a contract of guaranty.
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Tn Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This action was brought by the defendants in error, Louis Mayaud and Theofile Hunte, citizens of France, and co-partners in business at Paris under the firm name of Mayaud Freres, against the plaintiffs in error, Joseph C. Hoffmann and Bernard Hoffmann, citizens and residents of Wisconsin. The action is upon a contract of guaranty. It is alleged in the declaration: That between July 1, 1893, and December 81, 1895, the plaintiffs sold and delivered to the Hoffmann Bros. Company “religious goods and…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
í -The réfusal;of the court to permit the witnesses to answer the questions propounded; it is urged, on the 'opinion of this court in U. S. *177v. Indian Grave Drainage Disk, 57 U. S. App. 417, 29 C. C. A. 578, and 85 Fed. 928, is not reviewable, because it is not: shown by the bill of exceptions that the court below was informed what response the witnesses were expected to make; hut, while our view of the better practice was stated in that opinion, the decision turned upon other considerations. Our rule on the subject being then the same as that of the supreme court, we could not reasonably have…
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