THE ELGEE COTTON CASES


89 U.S. 180 (____)

22 Wall. 180

THE ELGEE COTTON CASES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J.M. Carlisle, J.D. McPherson, and W.W. McFarland, for the representatives of Elgee; Messrs. B.F. Butler and R.M. Corwine, for Woodruff & Co.; Mr. Montgomery Blair, for Lobdell; Mr. Joseph Casey, for Mrs. Nutt, and Mr. S.F. Phillips, Solicitor-General, for the United States.


Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases have been elaborately and very ably argued, touching both the legality and the construction of the contracts under which the different parties claim. But in the view which we take of the merits of the controversy it is unnecessary to do more than to examine the contracts themselves, and to determine what is their true meaning.

The fundamental question, in all the cases, is whether Elgee parted...

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