Legal Opinion

Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co. v. Goddard

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 15, 1853PublishedCited by 57 opinions

This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, The facts are set forth in the opinion of the court, and also the rulings of the Circuit Court. The bill of exceptions extended over thirty pages of the printed record.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.

The suit was brought by the plaintiffs in the court below, to recover the price of - three hundred bales of brown, and of one hundred cases of blue drills, which they had previously sold to the defendant.

_ The contract for the purcnase was made with the house of Mason & Lawrence, agents of the plaintiffs, in Boston, on the 19th September, 1850, and a memorandum of the same signed by the parties. A bill of parcels was made out under date of 30th September, stating -the purchase of the goods by…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gale v. NixonNew York Supreme Court · 1826

3Cited by57 opinions

  1. Beckwith v. TalbotSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Jenkins v. HarrisonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1880
  3. Grafton v. CummingsSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  4. Barrie v. QuinbyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
  5. Estate of KnoxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890

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