Chicago v. Greer
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Northern Illinois; the case was thus: In July, 1867, the city of Chicago published an advertisement inviting bids for the manufacture of. 13,000 feet of leather fire-hose, containing specifications as to the quality of material and manufacture, and providing that the hose. should be warranted to stand a pressure of 200 lbs. to the square inch. The hose was to be deliverable and to be tested in Chicago, on the 1st September.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Northern Illinois; the case was thus: In July, 1867, the city of Chicago published an advertisement inviting bids for the manufacture of. 13,000 feet of leather fire-hose, containing specifications as to the quality of material and manufacture, and providing that the hose. should be warranted to stand a pressure of 200 lbs. to the square inch. The hose was to be deliverable and to be tested in Chicago, on the 1st September. One Greer, a manufacturer of hose in Philadelphia, in response, made a bid in writing for the contract, the hose “ to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
Precisely what questions are intended to be raised here we are not informed. No oral argument has been submitted on behalf of the plaintiff’ in error. No brief of points has been filed, nor has any assignment of errors been made. ¥e are left to search the entire record to discover, if possible, some fault in the pleadings, or in the rulings of the Circuit Court, and this without any intimation that any error is alleged to have been committed, other than is given by the fact that a writ of error has been sued out. We find, indeed, that ten exceptions were taken at the trial to the admission or…
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