Swisher v. Kimbrough

Houck, J.. The errors here complained of occurred in a trial to a jury in the common pleas court of Licking county. The suit was filed by B. H. Kimbrough against John H. Swisher et al., the defendants in the common pleas court. Hereafter they will be referred to as they stood in the trial court.

The cause of this lawsuit was an alleged breach of a verbal contract between plaintiff and defendants, which granted to Kimbrough for a period of five years certain territory in which to sell the defendants’ line of cigars. An agreement to that effect was confirmed and approved by letter, but no formal…