McFadden v. George C. Wetherbee & Co.

This cause was originally commenced in justice’s court. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant, a corporation doing business in Detroit, had refused to carry out a certain contract, by which refusal he had suffered damage. He declared orally, as appears from the justice’s return, in an action of assumpsit upon the common counts,—

“Claiming damages for a violation of special contract, by which defendant agreed to buy of plaintiff a quantity of wooden blocks at $1.50 per load, which defendant violated, and plaintiff was obliged to sell said blocks to other parties at a less price, to…