Wilson v. Æolian Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The H£olian Company and another, from .a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of June, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order made at the Kings County Special Term and entered, in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings…
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Appeal by the defendants, The H£olian Company and another, from .a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of June, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order made at the Kings County Special Term and entered, in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of June, 1900, amending the plaintiff’s complaint after the close of the evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
In 1882 the Mechanical Orguinette Company, a domestic corporation, was engaged in manufactnring and selling certain mechanical toys or musical instruments, with its principal offices in the city of New York. At that time the Orguinette company was in litigation with certain parties over the question of the ownership of certain rights in patents, and for the purpose of settling this litigation and placing the business of the corporation upon a safe footing a compromise was effected, in which one Henry Wilson, as the party of the second part in an agreement entered into, granted a…
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- Holmes & Griggs Manufacturing Co. v. Holmes & Wessell Metal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Hein v. . DavidsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
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