Starling v. St. Paul Plow-Works

This is a suit for a breach of contract. The plaintiff is a citizen of Nebraska, and the defendant of the state of Minnesota. The defendant is a naked licensee of apatent, (No. 154,293, dated August 18, 1874,) under a contract executed December 17, 1877, by which it is permitted to'manufacture and sell the Starling sulky-plow in the following territory, viz.: “Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Dakota, and all that part of Iowa north of the Northwestern Railway, and all that territory west and north of the above-described territory.” A royalty of §2.50 per plow was exacted to be paid on accounts…