MEATH v. BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI COMMISSIONERS


109 U.S. 268 (1883)

MEATH v. BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI LEVEE COMMISSIONERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19th, 1883.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James Lowndes, for the defendants in error.


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...

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