World's Columbian Exposition Co. v. Republic of France
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Gircnit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action by the republic of France against the World’s Columbian Exposition Company to recover for alleged injuries to certain property by ure and water while in defendant’s building. There was a judgment for plaintiff (83 Fed. 109), and defendant brings error. The defendant (plaintiff in error in this court) was summoned to answer a plea of trespass on the case.
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In Error to the Gircnit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action by the republic of France against the World’s Columbian Exposition Company to recover for alleged injuries to certain property by ure and water while in defendant’s building. There was a judgment for plaintiff (83 Fed. 109), and defendant brings error. The defendant (plaintiff in error in this court) was summoned to answer a plea of trespass on the case. The declaration as originally filed, barring the venue and the title of the cause and court, was as follows: “The French republic, a…
1Opinion of the CourtShowalter, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). It is argued on behalf of defendant in error that the assignments do not raise any question which can be considered by this court; that the iifih assignment, for instance, is ill because as blatter of law the presiding judge was not bound to make any special finding of fact at all, but only the general finding of guilty or not guilty in manner and form as charged in the declaration; that neither the proposition in the fourth assignment nor that in the third could have been either held or refused without a finding of fact which the trial judge was not obliged to make…
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