Morrison v. Shuster

The first step in these cases was a bill filed by Morrison, Harrimon & Co., against the defendants, on the 16th of September, 1879. It alleged that the complainants were *192wholesale dry goods merchants in the city of Philadelphia ; that the defendant Henry C. Shuster was a retail dry goods dealer in Washington city ; that for neaidy a year he had been purchasing, from time to time, goods from the complainants; that on four occasions, named in the bill, the first in May and the last in August, 1879, the complainants had furnished him with large quantities of dry goods, which had been received by…