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WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA, & GEORGETOWN S.P. CO. v. SICKLES

65 U.S. 333 (____)

24 How. 333

THE WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA, AND GEORGETOWN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. FREDERIC E. SICKLES AND TRUEMAN COOK. THE WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA, AND GEORGETOWN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. FREDERIC E. SICKLES AND TRUEMAN COOK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Badger and Mr. Carlisle for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Bradley and Mr. Stone for the defendants.

Mr. Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendants in error, as plaintiffs, sued the plaintiffs in error, in assumpsit in the Circuit Court, upon a special parol contract, purporting to have been made in 1844, to the effect that they having a 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...

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