Ritchie v. McMullen

This was an action brought September 21, 1888, in the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Ohio, by James B. McMullen, a citizen of the state of Illinois, and George W. McMullen, a citizen of the province of Ontario, in the dominion of Canada, against Samuel J. Ritchie, a citizen of the state of Ohio, upon a judgment for the sum of $238,000, recovered by the plaintiffs against the defendant on February 26, 1888, in the queen's bench division of the high court of justice for the province of Ontario.