Hodges v. the Richmond Manufacturing Company
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
This was an action to recover $50,000 damages, for breach of a contract. At the trial of the case, at the October Term, 1870, of the Supreme Court for this county, before the chief justice and a jury, a verdict was rendered in favor of the defendants, whereupon the plaintiff moved for a new trial on the ground of alleged error on the part of the judge presiding at the trial, in the exclusion of certain testimony offered by the plaintiff.
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This was an action to recover $50,000 damages, for breach of a contract. At the trial of the case, at the October Term, 1870, of the Supreme Court for this county, before the chief justice and a jury, a verdict was rendered in favor of the defendants, whereupon the plaintiff moved for a new trial on the ground of alleged error on the part of the judge presiding at the trial, in the exclusion of certain testimony offered by the plaintiff. The grounds of the motion are fully set out in the opinion of the court.'
1Opinion of the CourtDtjreee, J.
This was an action to recover damages of the defendant corporation for refusing to fulfil an alleged verbal contract, the making of which was denied by the defendant. The plaintiff testified that the contract was made with him on behalf of the defendant corporation, in December,. 1868, by its then President, George M. Richmond, who died before the commencement of the action, and that, at the time, the plaintiff made a memorandum of the contract which he read over to the said George M. Richmond, who declared it to be correct. The memorandum was as follows : —
“ Memo of a contract entered into…
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