Pratt v. Paris Gas Light & Coke Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Assumpsit for goods sold, etc. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Edgar County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1898, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wall
This was assumpsit by appellants against appellee to recover the price of a certain apparatus for the manufacture of water gas, furnished by the former to the latter under a contract in writing. The appellee pleaded the general is^ue and four special pleas. These latter were in effect that the consideration had failed, that the contract had been entered into upon false and fraudulent representations by the appellants, as to material facts, involving the right to use the patent for the manufacture of gas by the apparatus in question, and that the appellants had failed to indemnify the appellee…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Middlebrook v. . BroadbentNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Saxton v. DodgeNew York Supreme Court · 1870
- Page v. DickersonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Rice v. GarnhartWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
- Hull v. NobleSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1885