HARRISON v. FORTLAGE

No. 14.

161 U.S. 57 (1896)

HARRISON v. FORTLAGE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John G. Johnson for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. William Allen Butler, (with whom was Mr. Wilhelmus Mynderse on the brief,) for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The single question is whether the contract between the parties required all the sugar to be brought to Philadelphia in the Empress of India, upon which it was originally shipped. This depends upon the meaning of the terms of the writing in which the parties must be assumed to have embodied and expressed their whole intention, and to have defined...

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