Birkery Manufacturing Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Shit to compel the specific performance of an agreement to assign certain patented improvements, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee by whom the facts were found and reported; the court, Shumway, Jl, accepted the report of the committee and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiffs appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Shit to compel the specific performance of an agreement to assign certain patented improvements, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and referred to a committee by whom the facts were found and reported; the court, Shumway, Jl, accepted the report of the committee and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiffs appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The plaintiffs are the Birkery Manufacturing Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of this State and located in the town of Hartford, and Thomas Standish and Cornelius…
1Opinion of the Court
Toubaítob, J.
In March, 1892, the written agreement set out in the complaint in this case was made between Standish on the one side and Birkery and Jones on the other. In it Jones recites that he has agreed to assign to the Birkery Manufacturing Company, a corporation then about to be formed, all his right, title and interest in and to the three inventions mentioned in the agreement. This recited agreement he subsequently carried out. In July, 1892, Standish and Birkery assigned to the plaintiff, the Birkery Manufacturing Company, all their right, title and interest in and under the written…
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