Legal Opinion
Corporation of St. Anthony in New Bedford v. Houlihan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 13, 1910No. 876PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. > Action at law by Michael J. Houlihan against the Corporation of St. Anthony in New Bedford. From an order (173 Fed. 496) relating to costs, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This was an action of contract, in which the original plaintiff, whom we here will style the plaintiff, claimed $14,000, and the defendant declared in set-off for $52,772.05. The case was evidently one in which the court might, of its own motion, have required an auditor, hut the following order was made:
"February 32, 19(K>, by agreement of the parties, it is ordered by the court that Clarence IT. Cooper, Ksquire, be and hereby is appointed auditor in the above-named action, to hoar the parties, state the facts, and report the questions of law and evidence relating…
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