International Text Book Co. v. Doran
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on contract, brought before a justice of the peace, who gave judgment for the plaintiff. On appeal to the Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield County, a counterclaim was filed, and a demurrer to it overruled (Curtis, J.'). Final judgment was afterward rendered (Scott, J.~) for the defendant, but on the counterclaim for the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The defendant, at the age of twenty, signed a lengthy contract with the plaintiff, which conducts a correspondence school, to take a course of instruction in electricity, and pay $77 for it, in monthly instalments of $5 each. As part of the course he was to receive a loan of certain books of instruction. Before signing the contract he informed the local agent of the plaintiff, through whom the negotiations had been conducted, that he was not yet twenty-one, but the agent directed him to fill a blank left in the printed form of contract for the statement of the scholar’s age by writing in “…
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