Rowan v. Sharps' Rifle Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
The decree of the superior court in this case having been reversed (ante Vol. 81, p. 1,) the case was again entered in that court, and in accordance with the advice of the supreme court was sent again to the committee by whom the facts were before found, for a further finding of facts.
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The decree of the superior court in this case having been reversed (ante Vol. 81, p. 1,) the case was again entered in that court, and in accordance with the advice of the supreme court was sent again to the committee by whom the facts were before found, for a further finding of facts. The committee afterwards made a supplemental report, finding that the respondents had sustained no loss by reason of the failure of Robbins & Lawrence to manufacture and deliver the whole number of rifles which they had agreed to make and deliver by the contract of January 9,1852 ; and that the amount of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hinman, C. H.
When this cause was before us on a former occasion (31 Conn., 1,) we held that the decree of the superior court foreclosing the right of the petitioner and of the government of Great Britain, unless they should pay for the use of the respondents a large sum of money, found to be the loss and damage sustained by the respondents by reason of the acts and defaults of the agents of the British Government in respect to a contract between that government and the respondents, which was wholly separate and independent of the contracts upon which this petition is founded, and on failure…
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