Murphey v. Weil
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from orders of the superior court of Milwaukee county: R. N. AustiN, Judge. The action is upon a contract in writing for the sale of 250 shares of paid-up corporate stock in the Jacobs Electric Company, a corporation, by the plaintiff and one Jacobs jointly to the defendant, Weil, for the sum- of $25,000, of which $13,500 was to be paid at the date of the contract, and the remaining $11,500 was to be paid in several deferred payments.
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Appeals from orders of the superior court of Milwaukee county: R. N. AustiN, Judge. The action is upon a contract in writing for the sale of 250 shares of paid-up corporate stock in the Jacobs Electric Company, a corporation, by the plaintiff and one Jacobs jointly to the defendant, Weil, for the sum- of $25,000, of which $13,500 was to be paid at the date of the contract, and the remaining $11,500 was to be paid in several deferred payments. The contract provides that, if the patents applied for by Jacobs on an invention for thermostat and automatic machine be disallowed in substance, the…
1Opinion of the CourtNbwjiaN, J.
The eleventh finding of the special verdict is that the terms, “ Patent applied for on thermostat and automatic machine,” in the contract, were used with reference to the automatic machine involved in the Butz interference proceedings. This was the clock-work device for automatic adjustment of the thermostat and automatic machine at predetermined times. So far as the question being now considered goes, the plaintiff’s right to.recover depends on the further fact that that application was allowed in substance. If it was, the condition on. which the right of the defendant to have his purchase…
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