Wollensak v. Briggs
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. In this case Wollensak filed his bill in chancery against Briggs, alleging the execution by Briggs of two contracts in writing, by which he agreed to construct for the complainant two certain machines, one for making speaking tubes, and the other for making speaking tube elbows, which machines were to embrace and embody various new and useful improvements and inventions made, and to be…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county ; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. In this case Wollensak filed his bill in chancery against Briggs, alleging the execution by Briggs of two contracts in writing, by which he agreed to construct for the complainant two certain machines, one for making speaking tubes, and the other for making speaking tube elbows, which machines were to embrace and embody various new and useful improvements and inventions made, and to be made, by the defendant, and to assign such improvements and inventions to the complainant, tlxe same to be secured by…
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, P. J.
It is manifest that the bill in this case, in its entire scope and purpose, is a bill to compel the specific performance by the defendant of certain contracts between him and the complainant. By those contracts the defendant undertook to produce and construct, by his labor, skill and inventive genius, certain improved machinery for manufacturing speaking tubes. Said machines, as the bill alleges, were to embrace and embody various new and useful improvements and inventions made and to be made by the defendant. No details or specifications are given in the contracts as to the form, materia],…
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