Galgate Ship Co. v. Starr & Co.

MORROW, District Judge.

In an opinion heretofore delivered in this case1 I gave some weight to certain admissions contained in a letter written by Balfour, Guthrie & Co., of San Francisco, to Balfour, Williamson & Co., of Liverpool, and dated June 5, 1891. Portions of this letter, which referred to transactions not involved in this case, were properly omitted from the copy of the letter furnished the court; but one paragraph of this character was left in the letter by mistake, and, its irrelevancy being overlooked by the court, it was treated as'containing an important admission against the…