American Law Book Co. v. Carter

The American Law Book Company sued J. E. Carter in the justice court of Parker county for $161.37. It was alleged that defendant had ordered from plaintiff on, to wit, September 19, 1919, a set of Cyc., volumes 1 to 40, inclusive, and certain index and annotations thereto, and 17 volumes of Corpus Juris; that the defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $40 rental for the use of the volumes of Cyc. and $127.50 for the 17 volumes of Corpus Juris then published, to pay $7.50 per volume on delivery of each subsequent volume not to exceed 70, and to pay $8 a volume for the annual annotations of the…