Johns v. Jaycox
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Walla Walla county, Brents, J., entered March 14, 1911, upon findings in favor of the defendants, in an action on contract, after a trial on the merits to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
Action to recover a balance due upon a written contract for two hundred talking machines, sold by the plaintiff to the defendants, through an agent. The material facts are nearly all admitted. The machines were purchased to give away to defendants’ customers as an advertisement. When first approached, the defendants declined to make the purchase'. The agent then proposed that, if the defendants- would execute the printed form of contract *404which he produced', he would give them a written guaranty that the defendants would sell an average of twenty-five records to each customer to whom a machine…
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