Gruen v. George A. Ohl & Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On- error to the Supremé Court. The plaintiff is the assignee of the following written contract: “December 29, 1905. I hereby agree to sell Mr. A. J. Ellis, a FTo. 5 Press, with dies not duplicate in front of machine, for the sum of six hundred and eighty dollars. Signed, George A. Ohl, Jr., for George A. Ohl & Company.” The contract was assigned to the plaintiff on January 4th, 1906. It is not questioned that Mr. Ohi was authorized to act for the defendant.
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On- error to the Supremé Court. The plaintiff is the assignee of the following written contract: “December 29, 1905. I hereby agree to sell Mr. A. J. Ellis, a FTo. 5 Press, with dies not duplicate in front of machine, for the sum of six hundred and eighty dollars. Signed, George A. Ohl, Jr., for George A. Ohl & Company.” The contract was assigned to the plaintiff on January 4th, 1906. It is not questioned that Mr. Ohi was authorized to act for the defendant. The press and dies had belonged to A. J. Ellis Company, an insolvent corporation, and together with other machines had been bid in at…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The exceptions that are intended to raise the principal questions in this case are defective, in that they assume to except to portions of the charge, one of them a page in length, embracing different propositions of law, and fail to point ont distinctly the particular point to which exception is taken. We have, nevertheless, considered the merits of the questions argued in. the brief of the plaintiff in error, but are not to be understood as approving the form in which the exceptions were taken.
Although the contract involved in this case was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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