Welling v. Merrill

Welling bought of Merrill & Co. thirteen copies of the forty-ninth volume of Indiana Eeports, prepared and published since the taking effect of the act of March 13th, 1875 (Acts 1875, Reg. Sess., 126), hereinafter noticed, at the rate of four dollars and fifty cents per copy, for the amount of which he gave them his note, on which this action was brought. Answer setting up the facts and claiming a want of consideration to the extent of one dollar and fifty cents per copy.

The question arising in the record is, whether Merrill & Co. were authorized under the law to sell the reports at a price…