Smyth Bros.-McCleary-McClellan Co. v. Beresford
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtSaunders, J.
This is a contest over commissions alleged by the defendant in error (plaintiff below) to be due under an oral contract between him and the plaintiffs in error. The controversy's brought before this court-by a writ of error to the judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond.
The origin of the controversy was in this wise: Plaintiffs in error, who were the defendants in the trial court, are large horse dealers located in the city of Richmond. At the outbreak of the European'war the concern was anxious to sell horses abroad to be used in the operations of war. A trip was taken…
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