Supreme Court of the United States March 12, 1860 (Emerson v. Slater)

Mr. Justiee CLIFFORD

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before the court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. It was an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff in error against the present defendant, upon a written agreement, bearing date on the fourteenth day of November, 1854.