PACIFIC EXPRESS CO. v. MALIN

No. 1301.

132 U.S. 531 (1889)

PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY v. MALIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 23, 1889.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W. Hallett Phillips for the motions.

Mr. John Johns and Mr. D.A. McKnight opposing.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was commenced by Sam. Malin and George Colvin, partners doing business under the firm name and style of Malin & Colvin, in the District Court of Mitchell County, Texas, to recover of the defendant the sum of five thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars, the alleged value of certain goods and chattels destroyed by a fire, occasioned, as averred, by the negligence of the defendant. The defendant...

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