Legal Opinion
Johnston v. Straus
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
Decided November 27, 1882PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
David Iseman and 0. E. Straus were wholesale liquor dealers in Richmond, Virginia, under the firm name of Iseman & Straus.- Their capital in trade originally put in was $6,000, and wholly borrowed. They were, according to the first arrangement, to furnish equal amounts of capital; but in the result Iseman put in $4,000, and Straus $2,000. Their business was commenced on or about Eeb-ruary 1, 1881. On the seventh or fourteenth day of that month they reported to the agent of the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. as follows, as testified to from memorandum made at the time by T. Scarlett, Dun…
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