Legal Opinion

Root v. Childs

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 6, 1897No. Nos. 10,445—(90)PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Smith, J., overruling a demurrer to the complaint.

1Opinion of the Court

START, O. J.

Appeal by defendants from an order overruling their general demurrer to the complaint. The plaintiff declared upon a written contract executed by the parties hereto, which was made a part of the complaint. The contract, in which the plaintiff is the party of the first part and the defendants are the parties of the second part, recites that the plaintiff has acquired certain rights in and under certain letters patent of the United States, No. 521,990, covering a certain advertising device, which were conveyed to him by William P. Goodspeed by an instrument dated September 16, 1895.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bryant v. LivermoreSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1874

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Floyd v. PughSupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
  2. Stewart v. Kuskin & Rotberg, Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1937
  3. Briggs v. RutherfordSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1904
  4. Kokomo Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. MatlockIndiana Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Hobart v. KehoeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1910

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