Gilbert v. Selleck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for breach of an alleged contract of indemnity, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Warner, J verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $7,755, and appeal by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The substituted complaint rests this action upon a claimed breach of an oral contract of indemnity made and entered into November 8th, 1883, between Isaac Selleck, plaintiff’s intestate, and Benjamin and Darius Selleck, defendants’ intestates, by which Benjamin and Darius agreed that in consideration of the transfer to them by Isaac of certain personal property which he claimed to own, they would indemnify and save Isaac and his father, William B. Selleck, and his mother, Martha Selleck, from pecuniary liability by reason of certain notes made to Daniel Head and Head & Company by William, and…
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