Wiggins v. Burkham
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Indiana, in which, court Burkham brought suit to recover an account against Wiggins and four other defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
This is'a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. The action is assumpsit. The declai’ation contained only the common counts. The gase, as shown by the bill of exceptions, is as follows: Burk-ham, the plaintiff, lived in Chicago, and the defendants at Hagerstown, in'Indiana, distant from Chicago about 220 miles by railroad. Upon the trial, evidence was given tend ing to prove that the plaintiff, on or about the 16th of May, 1866, sent to the defendants by mail a written statement of the…
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