Pacific Iron Works v. Newhall
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill for the foreclosure of a mortgage of a steam engine and appurtenances, brought to the superior court in New Haven county, by the petitioners, who were a joint stock corporation. The following facts were found by the court upon the bill and answer. In the year 1860 the petitioners were manufacturing at Bridgeport stationary steam engines, and the respondent was manufacturing carriages at New Haven by steam power.
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Bill for the foreclosure of a mortgage of a steam engine and appurtenances, brought to the superior court in New Haven county, by the petitioners, who were a joint stock corporation. The following facts were found by the court upon the bill and answer. In the year 1860 the petitioners were manufacturing at Bridgeport stationary steam engines, and the respondent was manufacturing carriages at New Haven by steam power. The respondent having occasion to purchase a steam engine, went for that purpose to the petitioners’ manufactory. • They there represented to him that they were manufacturing…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
This is a bill to foreclose a mortgage upon a steam engine and the machinery connected therewith. The mortgage was made to secure certain notes to the petitioners, the consideration of which was the sale to the respondent of the engine in question. The petitioners furnished the respondent with the engine under a contract for that purpose. They were manufacturers of engines, and they represented that they were manufacturing them with an automatic or adjustable cut-off, of which one N. T. Green held letters patent; that they had a license from him to apply the cut-off to engines constructed by…
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