Black v. Shreve

The amount of money, rather than the difficulty of the questions involved in this cause, invests it *457with more than ordinary interest. Were it otherwise, I should be content to cast my vote without attempting to assign reasons for it.

Without designing an elaborate examination of the law or evidence, I will proceed briefly to mention some of the many reasons which have determined me to cast my vote for the affirmance of this decree.

The respondents rest their case upon a single point-^that the covenant of the defendants, upon which their liability depends, was never, in the legal sense of the…