Meyer v. Estes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for breach of the following agreement: “ The undersigned, Messrs. Estes and Lauriat and Messrs. S. E. Cassino & Co., of Boston, Mass., U. S. A., hereby agree to use all electrotypes ordered from the Bibliographical Institute Meyer, in Leipzig, only for the purpose of illustrating works to be published by the said Estes and Lauriat and the said S. E. Cassino & Co., or their heirs or successors in business, in the English language and in the United States of America.
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Contract, for breach of the following agreement: “ The undersigned, Messrs. Estes and Lauriat and Messrs. S. E. Cassino & Co., of Boston, Mass., U. S. A., hereby agree to use all electrotypes ordered from the Bibliographical Institute Meyer, in Leipzig, only for the purpose of illustrating works to be published by the said Estes and Lauriat and the said S. E. Cassino & Co., or their heirs or successors in business, in the English language and in the United States of America. “ Estes and Lauriat and S. E. Cassino & Co. agree not to sell these electrotypes to any other parties, nor to multiply…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The agreement sued on must be regarded as an agreement made by the partnerships of Estes and Lauriat and S. E. Cassino and Company with Hermann Julius Meyer, then doing business in Leipzig under the name of “ The Bibliographical Institute Meyer.” After this agreement had been entered into and some of the electrotype plates had been ordered and furnished through the English and Foreign Electrotype Agency, Hermann Julius Meyer took his two sons into partnership and proceeded to carry on the same business under the same name as before; and after this other plates were ordered by the defendants…
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