Stouffer v. Fletcher
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Wolcott, J. Assumpsit by Joseph C. Stouffer against Edward Fletcher and Caroline Fletcher, copartners as E. Fletcher & Company, upon certain drafts. There was judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. This suit is based upon two drafts for $95 each, drawn by the Puritan Manufacturing Company of Iowa City, Iowa, upon the defendants, a copartnership, doing business in Grand Rapids, Mich., under the firm name of E. Fletcher & Co., and accepted by them.
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Error to Kent; Wolcott, J. Assumpsit by Joseph C. Stouffer against Edward Fletcher and Caroline Fletcher, copartners as E. Fletcher & Company, upon certain drafts. There was judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error. This suit is based upon two drafts for $95 each, drawn by the Puritan Manufacturing Company of Iowa City, Iowa, upon the defendants, a copartnership, doing business in Grand Rapids, Mich., under the firm name of E. Fletcher & Co., and accepted by them. One was payable four and the other six months after date. The Puritan Manufacturing Company is a manufacturer of cheap…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). The assignments of error relate to the charge of the court, and the refusals to'give certain requests preferred by the plaintiff. The substance of most of the requests was correctly given in a clear and well-connected charge, a practice, we think, much preferable to reading each, specific request. The evidence was ample to sustain the finding that the order and the drafts based thereon were obtained by false representations, and were void in the hands of the Puritan Manufacturing Company. The court correctly instructed the jury that if they so found, the burden of…
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- First National Bank v. DoughertySupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
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