Chouteau v. Goddin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from. St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action brought to October term, 1863, for damages for the alleged wrongful taking and carrying away of certain property of plaintiffs.
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Appeal from. St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action brought to October term, 1863, for damages for the alleged wrongful taking and carrying away of certain property of plaintiffs. The petition alleged a purchase by plaintiffs, as partners under the firm name of Chouteau, Harrison & Tallé, in October, 1862, at a public sale of property of the United States, a certain damaged and sunken steamboat, with her tackle and apparel, lying on the Tennessee shore of the Mississippi river opposite “ Island No. Ten”; and that after said purchase defendants took possession of said boat on or…
1Opinion of the CourtWagneR, Judge
The record in this case presents two questions for our consideration. First, whether the evidence in regard to the manner in which the boats were sold was admissible; and secondly, whether the declarations and actions of Goddin in pointing out the Grampus to respondents’ agent, Carlin, and thereby inducing him to go to the labor and expense of reclaiming and saving the machinery, operated as an estoppel.
The boats were sold by Capt. Wise, assistant quartermaster of the United States army, in pursuance of an advertisement which he had inserted in the St. Louis, Cincinnati and Cairo newspapers.…
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