Conrad v. Lane

This is an action in the nature of assumpsit, in which the plaintiffs seek to recover the reasonable value of certain merchandise sold and delivered to defendant. It was tried by the municipal court, without a jury. ■ The court finds that, in 1874, plaintiffs sold and delivered to defendant, then an infant, merchandise (not necessaries) of the value of $214.81, upon which there remains unpaid a balance of $131.81; that defendant was then engaged in business in his own name and for his own benefit, holding himself out to be of age, and that, on the faith of such holding out, the goods,…