Ellison v. Keith
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Clarke county, Blake, J., entered November 17, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtHovey, J.
In this case the respondents, who operate a chautauqua, sued the appellants as subscribers to a contract by the terms of which appellants agreed to take a certain number of tickets for an indoor chautauqua to be held at Bidgefield, in this state, in the season of 1917. The contract is dated March 22, 1917.
On August 7, 1917, the appellants signed a written revocation of this agreement and the same was received by the respondents within a few days thereafter.
The contract in question is one of eighty-seven similar contracts obtained by the respondents for that season in as many different towns…
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