Miller v. Roberts

This was a suit on a promissory note. A verdict-for the defendant was rendered, and the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial was overruled.

The consideration of- the note was the exclusive right to sell, in the counties of Early, Decatur, and Miller, '“a pinless clothesline,” under patent rights issued by the government of the United States to the seller. The defendant pleaded that when the sale was made, the plaintiff represented to him that the only cost ■connected with the sale of the pinless clothes-line would be the ■ purchase price represented by the note sued upon, that none of the towns…