Wilson v. Hentges
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the district court for Houston county, Page, J., presiding, denying their motion for a new trial, after a trial before Brill, J., (acting for the judge of the 10th district,) and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
Action on two promissory notes, executed by defendants to the “Cedar Falls Scale Company,” or order, and endorsed, after maturity, to plaintiffs.
It appeared from the evidence that the payee in the note granted to Hentges the exclusive right to sell, in Vernon county, Wisconsin, for three years, a patented article called “Budge & Bussell’s Patent Sack-holder Weighing Scale;” and, also, that Budge & Bussell, who appear to have constituted the scale company, held a contract in writing with Essler, Norris & Doolittle, of St. Peter, Minnesota, by which the latter firm agreed to manufacture the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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