White v. Randall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of the following agreement, dated Boston, February 8, 1887, and signed by the defendant: “ Boston, Feb. 8, 1887. Reynolds T. White of Boston, Mass., having this date assigned to me all his right, title, and interest in certain allowance for letters patent, serial number 207,184, I hereby agree, after a full and complete test has been made of aforesaid named invention, and the same proves entirely satisfactory to me, and a stock company has been formed as…
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Contract for breach of the following agreement, dated Boston, February 8, 1887, and signed by the defendant: “ Boston, Feb. 8, 1887. Reynolds T. White of Boston, Mass., having this date assigned to me all his right, title, and interest in certain allowance for letters patent, serial number 207,184, I hereby agree, after a full and complete test has been made of aforesaid named invention, and the same proves entirely satisfactory to me, and a stock company has been formed as the result of said invention, after which I will pay to said White the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; also to make over…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
We think that the construction given by the presiding justice of the Superior Court to the written agreement declared on was correct. The defendant had the option either to pay to the plaintiff for the .assignment of his interest in the seller’s patent, $1,500, and to make over to him $50,000 of the *396capital stock of a company to be formed, or to pay him $5,000; but the defendant promised to do one or the other only “ after a full and complete test has been made of aforesaid named invention, and the same proves entirely satisfactory to me, and a stock company has been formed as the result of…
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