This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...It is also to be said, that there are charges now pending against himself covering these deliveries, and it is taxing our credulity too much to suggest that he would utter a falsehood for the sake of relieving his brother, which would at the same time implicate himself. Mr. Dunnels also swears that Mr. Franklin "W. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...It is also to be said, that there are charges now pending against himself covering these deliveries, and it is taxing our credulity too much to suggest that he would utter a falsehood for the sake of relieving his brother, which would at the same time implicate himself. Mr. Dunnels also swears that Mr. Franklin "W. Smith had nothing to do with the delivery of the hardware under this contract, but that Benj. G. Smith had charge of the matter. If it be said that the accused ought to have had charge and oversight of the delivery, and was guilty of neglect of duty if he had not, the answer has already been given. A division of labor is a necessity of business. A man cannot be omnicient and omnipresent. A member of a mercantile House, doing a large business, cannot have charge and supervision of all departments of the business, and cannot therefore be guilty of neglect of duty, if he has not. This utter want of personal connection with the delivery of these articles is to the accused a complete defence to the specification. Nor does this view, alike of the law and of the common sense of the thing, limit the just responsibility of the contractor. It leaves every man liable for the agreement into which he enters and for the crimes which he commits; and what more can the most rigorous justice require? But if the accused had been proved to have had the charge of the deliveries of these articles of hardware, he would have no occasion to fear even the slightest reproach or censure. Out of twelve thousand five hundred and sixty-four articles delivered. the charge now is that the twenty-three covered by the amended specification were of inferior quality and value to those required by the contract. The specification is confined and the Court limited the investigatio...
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