Patterson v. Farmington Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to enforce the rights of the plaintiff under an option-contract for the purchase of certain bonds of a Connecticut street-railway company, and for an injunction, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and abated ( Grayer, J.'), upon a plea to the jurisdiction, as to one of the two nonresident defendants; afterwards a demurrer to the complaint filed by the other defendants was sustained, Thayer, J., and judgment rendered for the defendants, from which the…
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Action to enforce the rights of the plaintiff under an option-contract for the purchase of certain bonds of a Connecticut street-railway company, and for an injunction, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and abated ( Grayer, J.'), upon a plea to the jurisdiction, as to one of the two nonresident defendants; afterwards a demurrer to the complaint filed by the other defendants was sustained, Thayer, J., and judgment rendered for the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed. The foundation of this. actiori is aii agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant Coykendall…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The claims of the plaintiff are based on two transactions and assume a sort of common-law marriage between the two, whereby the property rights incident to the first are transferred to or merged in the second. A reliance upon this assumption, without stating facts which justify it, accounts for the vagueness and uncertainties of the complaint, and constitutes its radical defect.
The first transaction centers in the option-contract of June 2d, 1898, between the plaintiff and the defendant Coykendall. Upon the allegations relating to this transaction, the plaintiff claims that on June 1st, 1900,…
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