Yulee v. Canova
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Suwannee Circuit Court. In stating this case, it becomes necessary to give a detail of so much of the proceedings in the case of the City of Savannah hereinafter mentioned, the impressment, negotiation for purchase, appraisement, appeal to the board of commissioners, agreement, &e., as may be applicable to this case and necessary for a history thereof, because by agreements of the parties hereinafter set-forth, it was…
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This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Suwannee Circuit Court. In stating this case, it becomes necessary to give a detail of so much of the proceedings in the case of the City of Savannah hereinafter mentioned, the impressment, negotiation for purchase, appraisement, appeal to the board of commissioners, agreement, &e., as may be applicable to this case and necessary for a history thereof, because by agreements of the parties hereinafter set-forth, it was stipulated that they should “ be placed in evidence before the Court,” and were so considered in the Court below, and thus come…
1Opinion of the Court
FORWARD, J.,
delivering the opinion of the Court.
The bill now under the consideration of this Court, was filed in the Court below by the appellant against the appel-lee to compel a specific performance of the above contraes and stipulation in writing, set forth in the bill haec verba, as Exhibits A and B,.for the sale or purchase of sugar, forced under the impressment act of Congress ; and as by the pleadings the said parties differ materially as to what the contract; and stipulation really was, it involves also the construction of the same.
On the part of the appellant it is contended that on…
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