Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam-Packet Co. v. Sickles
Supreme Court of the United States
These two cases were brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. They related to the same subject-matter, and were argued together.
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These two cases were brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. They related to the same subject-matter, and were argued together. The first case was an action brought by Sickles and Cook for their share of the earnings of the steam-packet company by the use of their cut-off from March 13,1846, to October 19, 1846; the second for the same earnings from October 13, 1846, up to December 26, 1855. The case- was before this court at a preceding term, viz: December term, 1850, and- is reported in 10 Howard, 419. The suit there was for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
The defendants in error, as plaintiffs, sued the plaintiffs , in error, iu assumpsit in the Circuit Court, upon a special parol contract, purporting to have been made in 1844, to the effect that they having á patent for Sickles’s cut-off, for saving fuel in the-working of steam-engines, and-the -defendants being ;the owners of a certain steamboat, it was agreed between them that the said patentees should attach to the engine of the defendants one of their machines; and that the defendants should pay for the use thereof three-fourths of the saving of fuel produced thereby, the payments tp be…
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