Woodbridge v. Pratt & Whitney Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for breach of a special contract and, by way of equitable relief, for an accounting under the contract, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for an accounting in part, and appeal by each party for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action for breach of a special contract and, by way of equitable relief, for an accounting under the contract, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for an accounting in part, and appeal by each party for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The finding showed the following state of facts: The defendant is a corporation chartered by this State, and until February 28th, 1893, was engaged in manufacturing at Hartford. Its business was conducted in several departments, one of which was known as the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The contract between the parties of January 1st, 1889, made the compensation for the plaintiff’s services, outside of his stated salary, dependent on the profits annually realized upon the sales for the year of goods manufactured or dealt in under his superintendence, and in his particular department of the business. He contends that the transfer of the main assets of the company, in 1893, to the New Jersey corporation, which had been organized to succeed to its business, in which transfer all the goods then in the small tool department were included, was in substance a sale of those goods,…
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