Hoyt v. Paw Paw Grape Juice Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Yan Burén; Des Yoignes, J. Assumpsit by Frank 'L. Hoyt against the Paw Paw Grape Juice Company, Limited, for the recovery of money advanced under a contract of employment. A judgment for defendant on a verdict directed by the court is reviewed by plaintiff on writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff paid to one of defendant’s managers, who received it on behalf of the defendant, *620$1,000. It went into the hands of its treasurer and was appropriated to its uses. This action is brought to recover it as paid without consideration.
The circumstances constituting the transaction are as follows: The defendant is a partnership association, limited, professedly engaged in the production and sale of grape juice. The plaintiff was a resident of Maine, whose attention was attracted to the defendant through an advertisement of the defendant published in a Maine paper. It was then doing…
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