Durfee v. Newkirk

Plaintiffs brought action in trespass on the case in the Wayne circuit court, alleging that the defendants had sold to them 100 pounds of peppermint oil, representing to them falsely that the same was good and genuine peppermint oil, when, in fact it was dementholized oil, from which the active principle of good and genuine oil, to wit, menthol, had been eliminated to the knowledge of defendants. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum of $350, for which they had judgment.

The case, as made by the plaintiffs, was that in 1886 and 1S87, they were engaged in buying and selling…