Webster v. Beau
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered November 14, 1911, dismissing an action for breach of contract, notwithstanding the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, after a trial on the merits.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, C. J.
Action by Edward Webster against John L. Beau, H. T. Harding and Ed Born, to recover damages for the breach of a written contract. The complaint, which purports, to state two causes of action, in substance alleges: That plaintiff has passed a number of years in that portion of Alaska within the Arctic Circle known as the “Mackenzie River Coun try,” which is inhabited by fur bearing animals; that, during his sojourn there, he acquired extensive and valuable information relative to the fur trade and the methods of obtaining furs from the native Indians and Eskimos; that in 1907, at Nome,…
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