Johnson v. McMurry

This was a suit on a negotiable promissory note executed by the defendants to one J. M. Spencer, and by him transferred to the plaintiff. The consideration for the note was the exclusive right to make and sell in Lewis county “ Spencer’s Improved Portable Stock Feeder.” The defendants alleged in their answer, that the invention was worthless, and that they-were induced to purchase tbe right to make and sell the same, and give their note therefor, by certain false and fraudulent representations of Spencer as to the value of said invention and of the exclusive *279right to sell the same, and as to…