Clough v. Patrick
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit, brought to recover the payment of a note given by the defendant to one S. S. Stone for one hundred dollars, dated 2d February, 1859, payable to said Stone or bearer, in twelve months from date, at the Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank in Burlington.
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Assumpsit, brought to recover the payment of a note given by the defendant to one S. S. Stone for one hundred dollars, dated 2d February, 1859, payable to said Stone or bearer, in twelve months from date, at the Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank in Burlington. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, April Term, 1864, Pierpoint, J., presiding. , The plaintiff’s evidence, being the depositions hereinafter mentioned, tended to show that the note was sold by Stone to one Marcus Ball, and by Ball to the plaintiff; that both transfers of said note were made for a valuable consideration, before the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrett, J.
The note in suit was given upon and for the purchase “of the right to manufacture in the county of Chittenden, Rogers’ patent mowing machine,” for which the payee claimed to have a patent. »■
The defendant’s evidence tended to show that said patented invention was utterly worthless, and could not be made to work as a mowing machine at all; that the defect was in the principle of its construction, &c.
Stone sold the right and took the note, payable to himself or bearer twelve months from date. Clough sues it, claiming to hold it by legitimate transfer from Stone'to Ball, and from Ball to…
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