Ochs v. David Maydole Hammer Co.

The David Maydole Hammer Company was incorporated many years ago and long before the rights of the plaintiff accrued. Its original capital stock was and still is $80,000 divided into 80 shares of $1,000 each. Its office and factory are at Norwich, N. Y. The Maydole hammer had long maintained an enviable reputation upon which its makers were enabled to largely profit and it is still well and favorably known , but in recent years other hammers of good quality have come intó the market and made it increasingly difficult to meet the competition.

*666On April 8, 1908, May Campbell, plaintiff’s foster…