Legal Opinion

James A. Clancy and Gertrude Clancy, Trading as James A. Clancy and Company v. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided May 25, 1961No. 13465PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

The only real problem on this appeal is whether the trial judge in his evidential rulings and jury instructions committed prejudicial error necessitating a new trial.

The litigation is for breach of contract. In 1928 plaintiff James A. Clancy, under an oral agreement with Horn Folding Partition Company, was appointed exclusive sales representative for Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey by Horn of its gymnasium equipment products. In 1937 the agreement was reduced to writing and gave plaintiff certain exclusive Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware territory. It…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Slonaker v. P. G. Publishing Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  2. Cummings v. Kelling Nut Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  3. State Ex Rel. Nagle v. SullivanMontana Supreme Court · 1935
  4. Weidman v. United Cigar Stores Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
  5. Green v. Reading Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Ronald Borden v. The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, Ronald Borden v. The Paul Revere Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1991
  2. Geib v. Alan Wood Steel Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1976
  3. William Harvey Porter v. American Export Lines, Inc. v. Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1968
  4. Nelson v. PercySupreme Court of Vermont · 1987

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