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33 Mich. 295

Danaher v. Garlock

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 18, 1876

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1876-01-18

Danaher had a contract to construct a portion of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway, and sub-let a portion of the work to Fahy & Dye. This action was brought to charge Danaher with payment of certain indebtedness to G-arlock incurred by Fahy & Dye for the board of their laborers. The evidence showed, among other things, the payment by Danaher’s agent of a previous board bill upon the order of Fahy & Dye. The plaintiff recovered judgment, and defendant brings error.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1905

2 state decisions

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Decided 1876-01-18

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Per Curiam :

¶1We think there is no material distinction between this case and Wells v. Martin, 32 Mich., 478, as to the proof introduced to show liability.

¶2. We discover no evidence in the record tending to show an original undertaking by Danaher, or any act of ratification of any arrangement which Fahy & Dye may have made, and the bill of exceptions states that the substance of all the testimony given is set out; and the judge, after refer*296ring in his charge to the evidence supposed to bear on the point, stated that it was substantially the testimony produced by both parties.

¶3The judgment should be set aside, with costs, and a new trial ordered.

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