Bacon v. F. W. Hunt & Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury. Chittenden County, March Term, 1899, Taft, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the defendants. The plaintiff excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTylek, J.
Action, general assumpsit, to recover certain sums of money which the plaintiff had paid the defendants, who were wholesale liquor dealers in Boston, Mass., for intoxicating liquors purchased of them, as he claimed, in violation of the laws of this state. He claimed that all such purchases made in the years 1893 and 1894 were under a contract made by him with their agent in Burlington in April, 1893, while the defendants insisted that all the purchases were pursuant to an agreement made by them with the plaintiff in Boston in January of that year.
I. An action was tried between these parties…
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