Julius Kessler & Co. v. Zacharias
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Saginaw; Beach, J. Assumpsit by Julius Kessler & Company against Henry J. Zacharias on a promissory note. There was judgment for plaintiff on a verdict directed by the court, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, C. J.
February 10, 1904, a salesman of plaintiff, an Illinois corporation, delivered to defendant a warehouse receipt purporting to transfer to him the title to five barrels of whisky. (This receipt is, except in names, date, and description of distillery, an exact counterpart of that described in Julius Kessler & Co. v. Veio, *699142 Mich. 471.) Defendant thereupon executed to plaintiff several promissory notes for the purchase price of said whisky. This suit was brought upon one of those promissory notes. It was tried in the circuit court before a jury, and a verdict was directed in plaintiff’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Julius Kessler & Co. v. VeioMichigan Supreme Court · 1905
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