Murphy v. Gifford

Plaintiff, as assignee, brought this action in the Eaton county circuit court to recover from defendant Gifford an unpaid balance claimed due on a typesetting machine sold him by the American Typograph Company, of Detroit, Michigan, under a contract with deferred payments. Plaintiff declared in assumpsit for the balance due on the contract, set out in full, and defendant pleaded the general issue with a lengthy notice of special defense, the material substance of which, as amended, is that he was induced to enter into the contract by fraudulent and false representations, “that said machine…