Speirs v. Union Drop Forge Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of an agreement in writing to keep the plaintiff and his shop employed for one year from June 1, 1896, in producing drop forgings from materials to be furnished by the defendant, the prices to be paid for the manufacture of the forgings to be determined from time to time by the mutual agreement of the parties.
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Contract for breach of an agreement in writing to keep the plaintiff and his shop employed for one year from June 1, 1896, in producing drop forgings from materials to be furnished by the defendant, the prices to be paid for the manufacture of the forgings to be determined from time to time by the mutual agreement of the parties. Writ dated January 14, 1897. At the first hearing of this case on agreed facts the Superior Court gave judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed. In a decision reported in 174 Mass. 175, this court sustained the appeal and set aside the judgment,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is an action of contract which already has been before the court. 174 Mass. 175. It having been decided that the instrument sued upon bound the defendant to keep the plaintiff and his shop employed during the year from June 1, 1896, to June 1,1897, and that the plaintiff had a cause of action, the case was sent to an assessor, as had been agreed by the parties.
The defendant seems to have confounded proceedings before an assessor with proceedings before a master, and to have supposed that the Superior Court and this court would reconsider the evidence and revise the assessor’s findings of…
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