Victor Sewing Machine Co. v. Rheinschild
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District Court. At the April Term, 1880, of the district court, Rfieinschild, as defendant, had judgment against the Victor Sewing Machine Co., as plaintiff, which brings the ease here. The nature of the action, and the facts, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
HortoN, C. J.:
On May 31st, 1878, one Charles C. Malone, a traveling salesman of the Victor sewing machine company, visited Lawrence to solicit purchasers for the sew*535ing machines of the company which he represented. He called upon the defendant in error, who was then engaged in •selling the St. John sewing machines, and said to defendant that he had a better machine than the St. John. He had the head of a machine with him, and set it up and tried it, and then repeated his statement that this (his) machine would do better work than the St. John machine,…
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