Coghlan v. Stetson

On the thirty-first day of August, 1883, the parties to this action executed the following contract:

“This agreement, made and entered into this thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, by and between John Stetson of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and commonwealth of Massachusetts, manager of Fifth Avenue Theater of New York, of the first part, and Charles F. Coghlan, of London, England, of second part; witnosseth, that the said party of the second part contracts that he shall give his professional services as leading man of the Fifth…