Stevens v. Johnston

Marvel, Vice Chancellor:

Plaintiff seeks rescission of a contract of September 27, 1954, under the terms of which plaintiff for the sum of $6,200 purchased from defendant a section of an established newspaper route which defendant had been operating in Christiana Hundred for a period of almost two years. Defendant as did all other such agents in the Wilmington area purchased out of state newspapers from Delmar News Agency, the sole independent distributor of such papers in Delaware. Defendant also purchased from Delmar News Agency locally published daily newspapers, but the distribution of…