Legal Opinion

Campbell v. Davidson-Martin Manufacturing Co.

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided May 7, 1901PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Error to St. Clair; Vance, J. Assumpsit by Robert Campbell against the Davidson-Martin Manufacturing Company for the breach of a contract to purchase certain machines. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for $1,210. The defendant has brought the case here by writ of error. I cannot state the questions involved in the case better than to quote from the language of the trial judge, the late Judge Vance, in his* charge to the .jury, which is as follows:

“The plaintiff claims that on or about April 6, 1894, the defendant, through its president, A. S. Martin, gave the plaintiff an order to manufacture for it twelve 15-inch Wizard purifiers of whitewood; that the defendant gave plaintiff about the same time an order to manufacture five small…

2Cases cited11 opinions

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  5. Dayton v. StoneMichigan Supreme Court · 1896

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