Bohn Manufacturing Co. v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Ramsey county, to recover $500 and interest on the contract considered in the opinion. The plaintiff appeals from an order by Kelly, J., refusing a new trial after verdict directed for defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
By the contract in question here, signed by the plaintiff on the one part, and the defendant and others on the other, and in consideration of the following proposition of the plaintiff, then engaged in manufacturing at the city of Winona, to wit, “to remove its manufacturing plant, and establish its manufactory, to and upon the 17 acres of. land which said corporation now owns in Ramsey county, Minnesota, * * * and to establish the same with suitable buildings and machinery, (with a capacity for a force of not less than 250 men,) and have the same in operation by the 1st day of September,…
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