Alexander v. Brogley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

These suits were brought by the plaintiff as •assignee of the Biographical Publishing Company.

In the first of the suits the testimony before the trial court tended to prove that an agent of the company, engaged for it in collecting data and obtaining subscriptions for a book of ■biographies, applied to the defendant for the purpose of preparing a sketch of his life, and after getting from him some •details of the history of his family and himself, handed to him a paper with the request that he would sign his name •upon it, so that in the…