International Text-Book Co. v. Roberts

Plaintiff sued defendant in justice’s .court to recover $47.79, being a balance claimed to be due on a contract for a course of instruction in the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., of which plaintiff is proprietor. Defendant was a car marker residing in Jackson, Mich., and at the solicitation of one of plaintiff’s agents engaged for a course of' instruction in said school, which was to cost him $68, less 20 per cent, discount. He entered upon his course of study, worked two lessons in arithmetic, “ got down to example 14 ” in the third, "‘couldn’t work it out,” and quit.…