Self v. Cordell

In this case no bill of exceptions is preserved in the record, and therefore there is nothing to review in this court except what may appear on the face of the record. The action was for damages for the violation of a contract, and alleged that the plaintiff purchased of the defendant a certain carding machine, and paid the purchase money, the defendant at the same time delivering the possession. As a part of the agreement, the defendant bound himself not to set up or superintend the running *346of any other carding machine in the vicinity of the one sold to the plaintiff, or near enough to be in…