Pope v. Allis
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. Edward P. Allis, the defendant in error, was the plaintiff in -the Circuit Court.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. Edward P. Allis, the defendant in error, was the plaintiff in -the Circuit Court. He brought his suit to recover from the defendants, Thomas J. Pope and James E. Pope, now the plaintiffs in error, the sum of $17,840, the price of five hundred tons of pig iron, which he alleged he had bought from them and paid for, but which he refused to accept because it was not of the quality which the defendants had agreed to furnish. The plaintiff also demanded $1750, freight on the iron, which he alleged he had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
He stated the facts in the language above reported, and continued: ’
1. The first assignment of error relates to nine exceptions to the admission of evidence by the court against the objection of the plaintiffs in error. The complaint having alleged that the contract between the parties was for the delivery of the iron at Milwaukee, the plaintiffs in error objected to the introduction of evidence offered -by the defendant in error which tended to show a contract for the delivery of the iron at Cop-lay or Elizabethport, because the proof offered did not support the averments of the complaint,…
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