Hitchcock v. Davis

The plaintiff, as assignee of Theodore *631Romeyn, deceased, brought suit in the Wayne circuit court based upon the following contract:1

“It is agreed between Samuel H. Davis, Thomas B. Rayl, and David W Davis, of the first part (jointly and severally), and Theodore Romeyn, of the second part, as follows:

“First. The contracts of the 2d September, 1879, and all obligations resting upon or springing from them, are relinquished.

“Second. The said first parties having settled their difference with George H. Hammond, of Detroit, and he having agreed to pay to them certain sums on conditions and at the…