Turner v. Marsh Furniture Co.

The defendant’s motion for judgment of nonsuit was properly overruled. The plaintiff’s evidence was sufficient to carry the case to the jury.

Defendant’s principal assignment of error relates to the judge’s charge on the measure of damages. Exception was duly noted to the instruction given by the court that if the jury found the defendant made the agreement to pay the plaintiff for the device as alleged, and that it worked satisfactorily, “then the plaintiff would be entitled to recover such sum of money as would represent the value of that invention to the defendant.”

We are constrained to…