Craigue v. Hall
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit on a note. Plea, the general issue with notice setting up a failure of consideration. The cause came on for-hearing upon a referee’s report, a request for further findings, an additional report and the plaintiff’s exceptions to the reports, Windsor County, December Term, 1899, Tyler, J., presiding. Judgment was rendered pro forma for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted.
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Assumpsit on a note. Plea, the general issue with notice setting up a failure of consideration. The cause came on for-hearing upon a referee’s report, a request for further findings, an additional report and the plaintiff’s exceptions to the reports, Windsor County, December Term, 1899, Tyler, J., presiding. Judgment was rendered pro forma for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted. From the referee’s report it appeared that the purchase-price in the sale referred to in the opinion, was arrived at under an agreement that it should be such sum as the property and goods transferred had cost the…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
The referee reports that the defendants and David E. Person were competitors in the business of buying and selling meats in the town of Chester, and that after some negotiations the defendants, for the agreed price of $2,351.29, purchased Person’s business and certain real and personal property, including a cash register for $275 which had cost Person only $175. It was a part of the agreement of purchase that Person should not enter into the meat business anywhere in Chester, nor upon certain specified routes over which he had driven his carts, and the defendants were induced by this…
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