Blake-Rutherford Farms Co. v. Holt Manufacturing Co.

In this case the complaint set up two causes of action. In the first, the plaintiff sought a rescission of the purchase of a traction farm engine, known as a “caterpillar,” and a return of the purchase price. In the second, it sought to recover damages for loss of profits upon work which the plaintiff claimed to have undertaken to do with the engine for other people, upon the strength of certain alleged *193representations of the defendant as to the amount and character of work which the engine would perform. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained upon the ground that the two causes of action…