Dickinson v. Dustin
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Selah Dustin, in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, against Asa D. Dickinson and Lothrop S. Hodges.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Selah Dustin, in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, against Asa D. Dickinson and Lothrop S. Hodges. The plaintiff declared specially: “For that, heretofore, to wit: on the fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the said Asa D. Dickinson and one Charles P. Crosby were doing a general law and collection business in Detroit, under the name and style of Dickinson and Crosby, and they, the said Dickinson and Crosby, on the time aforesaid, to wit, at Detroit, aforesaid, were…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
Dickinson and Hodges were sued, among other things, to recover certain moneys collected by a former firm of Crosby and Dickinson, upon the ground that Hodges had taken Crosby’s place in the firm, and assumed the liabili-. ties by an arrangement to which Dustin was a party. Judgment was given against them.
It is claimed as error that the declaration sets forth no sufficient consideration for the promise to pay that indebtedness to Dustin. The objection was not taken by demurrer, but was taken for the first time at the trial. The declaration was very defective in this regard, but…
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