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1 Before Hon. James R. Ludlow, President Judge: Case of Commonwealth against Tacks; Testimony, Argument of Counsel on Both Sides, with Opinion of Judge 1868

handle is hein.trials/acjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMMONWEALTH, ex. rel. Quarter Sessions. O'CONNOR, Coram LUDLOW, J. VS8. TACK BROS. Philadelphia, November 26. James O'Connor, sworn. Called and examined by Mr. Mann. Q. Relate the circumstances, and all about your complaint ? A. The complaint I have to make against these men (the Tack Bros.) is simply they defrauded me out of $30,000, or approxi- mating to that sum. It occurs in this wise, sir: They were m. paid confidential agents and I employed them to do a certain business, and I c tqre tem with having conspired against me. M lr. Cassidy. Tell me the business. Mr. .ann (interrupt- ing,) state your relations between these parties, how you came to employ them and what they did. A. I came here on the 7th of July, to the city of Philadelphia, in this year, I called upon Augustus H. Tack, this person (point- ing to Aug. H. Tack,) who was an Oil Broker, he does business on Walnut street, he told me he was very largely short of oil; that is, that he had sold oil deliverable ahead which he did not have-deliverable at future days, as time contracts, that he had been doing so for some time past; the market was heavily glutted with oil, and there were no orders from Europe, to which the greater portion of Petroleum is shipped, and that the market would still further decline. He stated, and urged upon me very strongly, to make time sales deliverable ahead of oil-which is termed short, that is oil which I did not possess. I am not in' oil broker or an oil dealer. 31r. Uasmidy. He said all this, did he ?

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