Green v. Brookins
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Oakland Circuit. Nothing need be added to the statement of the case as given in the opinion, except the requests to charge, which, were all refused, and that portion of the charge as given which appears in the record.
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Error to Oakland Circuit. Nothing need be added to the statement of the case as given in the opinion, except the requests to charge, which, were all refused, and that portion of the charge as given which appears in the record. The plaintiff requested the court to charge as follows: “If the jury believe that the defendant promised the plaintiff that if he would help organize the company, by subscribing for and taking two shares of stock, that he, defendant, would find him, plaintiff, a man to take it off his hands, if plaintiff did not want it, or that it should not cost the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
Brookins sued Green to recover damages for breach of a verbal contract between them. The declaration contained two special counts and the common counts. No evidence was given applicable to the latter, and no question arises upon them. The first special count stated that Green claimed to have an interest in a hay-fork patent, and was about to organize a company for the purpose of dealing in the fork and in rights under the patent, and promised Brookins that, in consideration that he would become a member of the company so to be organized, and subscribe for and take two shares at two hundred…
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