Hart Publications, Inc. v. Kaplan

Losing, Chief Justice.

This is an action to recover “the agreed price,” or reasonable value, of printing for defendants tickets or slips of paper to be used in games of chance. The total bill was alleged to have been $4,165, upon which $800 had been paid. Plaintiff had findings in its favor, and defendants Ida Kaplan and Thelma Geller, who were the only defendants who answered, appeal from an order denying a new trial. Four questions are presented:(1) Were the answering defendants liable to plaintiff as business associates under M. S. A. c. 338?(2) Was error committed in the admission in…