Fair Mercantile Co. v. Union-May-Stern Co.

Plaintiff, a corporation, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court dismissing its cause of action and ordering it to comply with the terms of a. compromise found to have been made in open court.

The .original petition prayed damages for breach of contract, wrongful conversion of personalty and for seeking to acquire control of plaintiff’s business and trade by wilfully and maliciously advertising that defendant had acquired the assets and business of plaintiff and that plaintiff was no longer in business. Judgment was prayed for $9,136.16.

During the trial a recess was declared to enable…