Bussard v. Hibler
Oregon Supreme Court
From Linn: George H. Burnett, Judge. This action was commenced in a justice’s court of Linn County to recover damages for the breach of an alleged agreement.
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From Linn: George H. Burnett, Judge. This action was commenced in a justice’s court of Linn County to recover damages for the breach of an alleged agreement. It is averred in the complaint, in substance, that on March 26, 1902, the plaintiffs, M. Bussard and John Robson, partners as Bussard & Robson, entered into a contract with the defendant, Ross E. Hibler, by the terms of which he agreed to purchase all the mohair that could be secured at suitable prices in the vicinity of Seio, Oregon, and deliver the same to them at that place upon their reimbursing him for his expenditure and paying him…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Moore
It is contended by plaintiff’s counsel that the testimony introduced by them at the trial, together with the inferences and presumptions fairly deducible therefrom, having tended to establish the material allegations of the complaint, the court erred in not submitting the questions involved to the jury for their determination. It is maintained by defendant’s counsel, however, that the complaint contains no averment that plaintiff suffered any special damage by reason of a breach of the alleged agreement, or that they entered into a contract with defendant for the purpose of reselling the…
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