Phillips v. Munsey
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from district court. Action by Abraham Phillips against Prank A. Munsey, to recover $247, the alleged value of certain engraving work, consisting of six blocks or plates.
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Appeal from district court. Action by Abraham Phillips against Prank A. Munsey, to recover $247, the alleged value of certain engraving work, consisting of six blocks or plates. Defendant disputed the value of the work, and alleged that it was done under an agreement, which had existed for some timé prior thereto, that plaintiff should do the defendant’s engraving work for 40 cents a square inch; half to be paid in cash, and the other half to be paid in advertising space in the defendant's magazine, the Golden Argosy. It was undisputed that there was an agreement between plaintiff and…
1Per curiam
There cannot be a doubt that forty cents per inch is a fail and reasonable price for the reproductions, and that a charge of two dollars per inch is unjust, and highly extortionate. It may well be that wood engravings of a high class, such as would bginserted by the Appletons in theii illustrated books, would be worth $50 each, but it is utterly preposterous to •claim any such value for the common, not to say inferior, specimens that the plaintiff made for the defendant’s use. The evidence is so strongly against ■the price that the plaintiff, has charged for the reproductions that we deem…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Macniffe v. LuddingtonNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1883
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