St. Charles Mercantile Co. v. Armour & Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

This case seems to be' on rather a new line — presenting, perhaps, some new questions — and, accordingly, it is of more than passing interest. But, as we have often found in that wonderful science of the law, new questions arising as •to rights between persons, and the remedies for wrongs upon those rights, are answered largely by applying to them old legal principles. Mr. Justice Gage often said, in his characteristic way, “The facts breed the law.” We turn, therefore, first to the facts in the case, and, because the exceptions of…