American Machinery & Construction Co. v. Stewart & Haas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; Wilbur Fisk Blackman, Judge. Action by the American Machinery & Construction Company against Stewart & Haas. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
On the 9th day of April, 1901, plaintiff leased unto defendants two certain machines for delinting cotton seed for the whole term and during the life and existence of the Baxter patent (17 years), in consideration of the payment of 50 cents per ton of seed worked up and delinted, the lessees guarantying that at least 1,000 tons of cotton seed should be delinted by them each year for every such machine in use, except in case of failure of crops, or destruction by fire or providential dispensation, over which said lessees had no control. There were other stipulations in the contract, which need…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- American Delinter Co. v. American Machinery & Construction Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1904
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