Portland Pullet Co. v. Breeze
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. The Portland Pulley Company, the plaintiff, is a corporation; and Herbert J. Breeze and Lother H. Karau, the defendants, are partners doing business under the firm name of Breeze-Karau Manufacturing Company. The plaintiff is engaged in the woodworking business and it maintains a factory for that purpose.
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From Multnomah: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 1. The Portland Pulley Company, the plaintiff, is a corporation; and Herbert J. Breeze and Lother H. Karau, the defendants, are partners doing business under the firm name of Breeze-Karau Manufacturing Company. The plaintiff is engaged in the woodworking business and it maintains a factory for that purpose. The defendants embarked upon the business of manufacturing undertakers’ baskets of the kind used by undertakers when moving a dead body to the place where the undertaker prepares the body for burial. We understand from the record that…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The complaint, it will be observed, alleges that the defendants owe the plaintiff $942.46 for work done and materials furnished in the manufacture of baskets. There is no attempt in the complaint to segregate the work done upon and materials furnished for the twenty-five baskets, which were begun and completed by the plaintiff, from the work and materials entering into the five baskets which were begun by the defendants and finished by the plaintiff.
As we understand the record, the plaintiff claims that it is entitled to $55.49 as the reasonable value of the work and materials which entered…
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- Chaperon v. Portland Electric Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1902
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- Turner v. CyrusOregon Supreme Court · 1919
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