Browne v. St. Paul Plow Works

On June 13, 1888, in consideration of the issue and delivery to the plaintiff by defendant of 60 shares of its capital stock, and its promise and agreement to redeem „said stock at its par value of $3,000 at the end of five years from said June 13, 1888, this plaintiff, by a certain agreement in writing, sold, assigned, and transferred to defendant certain letters patent granted to him by the United States, and which were owned by plaintiff, to wit, letters patent No. 340,551, bearing date April 27, 1886, for an improvement in wheel gang plows, and letters patent No. 335,013, bearing date…