Boggs v. Duncan-Schell Furniture Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee District Court. — IIon. H. Bank, Jr., Judge. Action to recover damages for injury claimed to business. It appears that plaintiff was a sewing machine agent aud defendant a retail merchant in the same city, and defendant, for the purpose of injuring plaintiff in his business, wrongfully and maliciously advertised to the public it would sell the same machine handled by the plaintiff at half the price for which the plaintiff was offering them for sale; that the…
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Appeal from Lee District Court. — IIon. H. Bank, Jr., Judge. Action to recover damages for injury claimed to business. It appears that plaintiff was a sewing machine agent aud defendant a retail merchant in the same city, and defendant, for the purpose of injuring plaintiff in his business, wrongfully and maliciously advertised to the public it would sell the same machine handled by the plaintiff at half the price for which the plaintiff was offering them for sale; that the sole purpose of the defendant in so doing was to. ruin plaintiff in his^ business. Cause tried to a jury. Yerdict and…
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
Plaintiff claims that on the 1st day of February, 1910, he was the exclusive agent for the sale of the New Improved White sewing machine in Lee county and adjoining counties; that the defendant Duncan-Schell Furniture Company, prior to that time, had been selling the same machines for profit, or as agents for the said sewing machine 'company; that, after plaintiff had secured the sole and exclusive agency for said machine, and while he was selling the same as agent, the defendants, for the purpose of destroying plaintiff’s business, and breaking him up financially, and putting him out of…
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