Dean v. White & Haight
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Mahaska, District Court. This was an action for damages, for the nonfulfilment of a contract, by which the defendants agreed to manufacture for the plaintiff, and set up in working order, at Oskaloosa, in Iowa, a saw mill of a certain patent, and to sell to him the exclusive right to use the same in Oskaloosa township, in Mahaska county; which was to be done by a certain day.
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Appeal from the Mahaska, District Court. This was an action for damages, for the nonfulfilment of a contract, by which the defendants agreed to manufacture for the plaintiff, and set up in working order, at Oskaloosa, in Iowa, a saw mill of a certain patent, and to sell to him the exclusive right to use the same in Oskaloosa township, in Mahaska county; which was to be done by a certain day. The plaintiff was to pay therefor, six hundred dollars, of which one hundred and fifty were to be, and were, paid down; one hundred and fifty to be paid when the mill should be set up, and the balance in…
1Opinion of the CourtStockton, J.
The first error assigned, is to the overruling of defendants’ motions for a change of venue. *268These motions were based upon two affidavits, the one alleging prejudice, on the part of the inhabitants of the county, against the defendants; and the other, stating that the defendants, being non-residents, had an agent in the county of Keokuk, and claiming that the action should have been commenced in that county. We do not think the court erred in overruling these motions. One objection to them is, that the cause had been continued one term — and perhaps two — and no reason is given for the delay…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Widner v. HuntSupreme Court of Iowa · 1856
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