Iron Cliffs Co. v. Buhl

In 1871 defendants in error, with one James Westerman, were pursuing the furnace business at Sharon, in the State of Pennsylvania, as copartners under the name of the Westerman Iron Company, and the plaintiffs in error were a mining corporation under the laws of Michigan, and engaged in mining iron ore at Negaunee, in our northern peninsula. The corporation were from time to time shipping their ore to Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Westerman company were in the way of receiving ore from that point by rail for their business.

At this time Rhodes & Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, were agents for the…