Earle v. Grout
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit upon an alleged contract on the part of the defendant to act as the plaintiff’s agent in the purchase of the St. Johns-bury Times, a newspaper, published at St. Johnsbury. Breaches, that the defendant purchased said paper for himself, and not for the plaintiff; that the defendant and one G. B. Bullard purchased it together ; and that the defendant assisted the said Bullard to purchase it.
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Assumpsit upon an alleged contract on the part of the defendant to act as the plaintiff’s agent in the purchase of the St. Johns-bury Times, a newspaper, published at St. Johnsbury. Breaches, that the defendant purchased said paper for himself, and not for the plaintiff; that the defendant and one G. B. Bullard purchased it together ; and that the defendant assisted the said Bullard to purchase it. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, June term, 1873, Ross, J., presiding. On trial it appeared that in 1870, one E. L. Hovey was the proprietor of a newspaper printed at St. Johnsbury,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redeield, J.
I. J. B. Robinson was produced by the defendant as a witness, and excluded by the court, on the ground that Robinson had become possessed of the facts he was to give in evidence, confidentially, as the attorney of the plaintiff. The defendant testified that he had never employed Robinson as his attorney in this suit. And Robinson testified that “ he never understood he was counsel, or to be counsel, in this matter. He talked over his matter with Grout, and discussed with me Grout’s liability. I was doing his collecting generally. He had…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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