Campbell etc. Co. v. Hickok
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 4 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 180 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 321 March Term 1889, C. P. No. 4. On May 4, 1889, the Campbell Printing-Press & Manufacturing Company brought assumpsit against William H. Hickok upon six promissory notes for $100 each, drawn by the defendant to the order of the plaintiff, five of them being dated August 23, 1888, and payable four, five, six, seven and eight months after date,…
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 4 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 180 July Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 321 March Term 1889, C. P. No. 4. On May 4, 1889, the Campbell Printing-Press & Manufacturing Company brought assumpsit against William H. Hickok upon six promissory notes for $100 each, drawn by the defendant to the order of the plaintiff, five of them being dated August 23, 1888, and payable four, five, six, seven and eight months after date, respectively, and the sixth being dated October 1, 1888, and payable six months after date; each of the notes bearing…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark:
It is contended that the effect of the two contracts of the seventh and twenty-seventh of August, 1888, was to constitute Hickok a bailee for hire of the printing and job presses, rollers, etc. The “ leases ” were not for any definite period of time; the space left for the insertion of the number of months constituting the term was left a blank. Nor was the price per month for the hire fixed in terms at any definite sum. In form, the writing plainly imports a bailment of the property. The Campbell Printing-Press & Manufacturing Company are styled lessors, and Hickok…
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