Lonergan v. Buford
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH. On December 10, 1886, the defendants in error commenced suit in the District Court of the county of Salt Lake, Utah ,Territory, to recover from the defendants, now plaintiffs in “This agreement made this seventeenth day of July, a. d. 1886, by and between Simon Lonergan and William Burke, of the city of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, parties of the first part, and the Promontory Stock Kanch Company, a partnership composed…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH. On December 10, 1886, the defendants in error commenced suit in the District Court of the county of Salt Lake, Utah ,Territory, to recover from the defendants, now plaintiffs in “This agreement made this seventeenth day of July, a. d. 1886, by and between Simon Lonergan and William Burke, of the city of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, parties of the first part, and the Promontory Stock Kanch Company, a partnership composed of M. B. Buford, J. W. Taylor and George Crocker, all of the State of California,- parties of the second part,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
There was no error in admitting in evidence the contract of sale to Hawkes of the 2000 steers, that being, according to the testimony, unquestionably the sale referred to in the exception and reservation named in the contract in suit, nor the statements made by Lonergan, the defendant, in reference to the ages of the steers which defendants had sold prior to such last contract, ap.d which they were to except therefrom. This was not testimony varying or contradicting the terms of the written agreement between’the parties; it only interpreted and made certain those terms; it simply identified…
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