Meath v. Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT- COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. Action upon a sealed instrument. Tbe plaintiff in error, Patrick Gr. Meatb, who was tbe plaintiff below, brought tbis suit, on December 21st, 1878, against tbe Board of Mississippi Levee' Commissioners.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT- COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. Action upon a sealed instrument. Tbe plaintiff in error, Patrick Gr. Meatb, who was tbe plaintiff below, brought tbis suit, on December 21st, 1878, against tbe Board of Mississippi Levee' Commissioners. It was founded on a contract in writing, under seal, between Meatb and tbe defendants, dated April 13tb, 1869, by wbicb Meatb covenanted to construct certain levees in tbe State of Mississippi on or before April 1st, 1871, and tbe defendants covenanted to pay bim a specified price per cubic yard in…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.. Justice Woods
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is insisted, by the plaintiff in error, that the special findings of the court, are fatally defective; because they do not find the contract by which the suit was brought or fix the . date when the cause of action accrued, and that for this reason the judgment of - the circuit court should be reversed. We might dismiss this assignment of error on the ground that there was a general finding for the defendants on all the issues of fact, and' that no error can be assigned on such a finding. Tioga Railroad v. Blossburg and Corning Railroad,…
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