Lamson Con. Store-Service Co. v. Weil

Plaintiff is the owner of a device known as the “reversible wire parcel system,” used in the carrying of parcels in stores. The device consists of an apparatus with “cars” or “stations” attached, which may be of greater or smaller number, and had been in use in defendants’ store, with an attachment of 20 stations, prior to January 1, 1889. On December 31, 1888, plaintiff notified defendants by letter that the apparatus would be removed unless defendants would agree to hire the same for three months at a time, at the rental of $20 per annum for each station, payment thereof to be made quarter…