Smith v. Crocker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Frederick H. Smith, Jr., from a 'judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, Henry J. Crocker, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of N ew York on the 22d day of November, 1895, upon the dismissal of the complaint directed by the court after a trial before the court and A jury at the New York Circuit.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The action was brought by the plaintiff, as the assignee of the International Wine Company, to recover $5,000 upon an agreement to erect and furnish a plant for making champagne and other sparkling wines in California. The contract is evidenced by a proposition made by the International Wine Company, through one Morton as broker, in New York, to two persons in California, á firm or otherwise, signing themselves Ferris & McCondry. The latter, in answer to a proposition made by the wine company, stated that upon the erection of the plant in California and production of 100 cases of…
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