Hunt v. Tibbetts
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Assumpsit for damages sustained under a written agreement signed by the'defend ant dated January 24, 1876., Writ dated September 17, 1878. Plea, general issue.
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On report. Assumpsit for damages sustained under a written agreement signed by the'defend ant dated January 24, 1876., Writ dated September 17, 1878. Plea, general issue. In the plaintiff’s writ, after setting out the contract, the allegations of breach are as follows : “but that the defendant unmindful of his agreement aforesaid to sell and transfer to said plaintiff his good-will in said business, and his obligations under said agreement, did from and ever since the execution of said agreement to this date injure and diminish the business of the place so sold by defendant to plaintiff by…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
On the 24th of January, 1876, the defendant, by ■an instrument in writing, in consideration of four thousand dollars in negotiable notes, given by plaintiff to him payable'at various dates, the last of the series not being due when this action came up for trial, sold and transferred to the plaintiff all his right and interest in and to all the property and assets of the late firm of E. H. Tibbetts & Hunt, excepting debts due, but expressly including and transferring “all my (his) good-will in said business, as carried on by said copartnership before its dissolution,” and stipulated that he…
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