Fitz v. Comey

The plaintiff’s declaration contains two counts. The first is upon a written contract by which the defendant, in consideration of the assignment to him of one quarter part of a patent, known as “the Switzer stop-motion for looms,” agrees to pay the plaintiff “the sum of three thousand dollars from the first profits of the one fourth part of the aforesaid patent, provided that the aforesaid one fourth of the patent shall produce the- amount of three thousand dollars over and above all expenses made in bringing the same before the market for practical use and sale, and that any further payment…