Potts v. Wallace
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ■ This was an action brought originally in the New York Supreme Court, and afterwards removed into • the.-'.^Girouit -Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, by Henry Potts, Jr., as assignee of the Chester Tube and Iron Company, plaintiff, against William H. Wallace.
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EEEOE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. ■ This was an action brought originally in the New York Supreme Court, and afterwards removed into • the.-'.^Girouit -Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York, by Henry Potts, Jr., as assignee of the Chester Tube and Iron Company, plaintiff, against William H. Wallace. The Chester Tube and Iron Company was a corporation of Pennsylvania, duly incorporated under the provisions of an act of assembly' of. that State, approved April 29, 1874, entitled." An act to provide for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shieas
The assignments in error are nineteen in number, but they present substantially but one question: Did the court err,-in view of all the evidence, in directing the jury to find a verdict for the defendant ?
There were no fi-adings of fact by the court or jury, and no charge or opinion1,of the court is shown by the record. We are therefore left to; draw the materials upon which we are to revise the judgment bf the court below from the various offers of evidence and exceptions thereto, read in the light afforded .by the respective briefs and arguments of counsel. .
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