Reeve v. Dennett
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, with counts in tort. The fourth and fifth counts, upon which alone the trial proceeded, were as follows: Fourth count.
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Contract, with counts in tort. The fourth and fifth counts, upon which alone the trial proceeded, were as follows: Fourth count. “ The plaintiff says that early in the year 1880 the defendant promoted, organized, and set up a bubble company, called the Dennett Dental Nabob Company; that said company was pretended to be organized under the laws of Connecticut, and was pretended by the defendant to have a capital of $1,000,000, fully paid up; that the defendant having offered to sell to the plaintiff six hundred shares of the capital stock of said corporation of the par value of $25 a share,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the defendant’s invention was merely a mixture of ingredients, all of which had been used long before to allay the pain caused by filling teeth. But it did not stop at that point; it tended to show that the compound was worthless for the purpose for which it was intended to be used; for the testimony was, that the ingredients separately were of no use, and that the mixture was as bad or worse. To meet this last proposition, the defendant put on a number of his patients, who testified that the defendant’s operations upon their teeth, using his…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Mullaly v. AustinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Bales v. WeddleIndiana Supreme Court · 1860
- Cunningham v. KimballMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Dows v. SwettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Packard v. PrattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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- American Civil Liberties Union v. BarnesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999
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- United States v. Garcia-RosaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
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