Beardsley v. . Kilmer

Hiscock, Ch. J.

For many years prior to 1904 the defendant Kilmer and his father were the substantial proprietors, first, under the form of a partnership and, thereafter, of a corporation in the city of Binghamton of a very profitable business engaged in manufacturing a patent medicine known as “ Swamp Root.” The defendant Hadsell was associated with them in the business having a small interest therein. In 1895 the plaintiff became the general manager of a paper known as the Evening Herald and which was owned by a corporation known as the Herald Company. A few years later he became a majority…