Kaplan v. Gray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court, as amended, on January 6, 1912, against the former and present members of a partnership carrying on business under the name of Gray and Davis, setting forth a contract in writing dated January 6, 1909, which is described in the opinion, made by the defendants Gray and Hollander with Charles G. Wridgway, who assigned his rights thereunder to the Wridgway No-Glare Shade Company which assigned its rights to the plaintiff, and…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court, as amended, on January 6, 1912, against the former and present members of a partnership carrying on business under the name of Gray and Davis, setting forth a contract in writing dated January 6, 1909, which is described in the opinion, made by the defendants Gray and Hollander with Charles G. Wridgway, who assigned his rights thereunder to the Wridgway No-Glare Shade Company which assigned its rights to the plaintiff, and seeking to establish a debt from the defendants Gray and Hollander to the plaintiff of a balance of $475 and to reach…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff’s right to recover depends upon the construction of a written agreement between Charles G. Wridgway, to whose interest he succeeds by assignment, and the defendants Gray and Hollander, formerly copartners under the name of Gray and Davis, and hereinafter called the defendants.
Wridgway was the owner of certain letters patent for a lamp shade for road vehicles. By the agreement in question he licensed the defendants to manufacture the shades for the period of one year; and further agreed not to permit any other lamp manufacturer in the United States to make them during the…
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