Myrick v. Purcell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
.Action in the district court for Rock county to recover $3,000, and interest, for negotiating in violation of a contemporaneous contract between the parties, six promissory notes of $500 each made by plaintiff to defendants, which notes coming into the hands of innocent parties plaintiff was obliged to pay. From an order, P. E. Brown, J., overruling a demurrer to the complaint, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
To the amended complaint of the plaintiff and respondent herein, the defendants and appellants demurred on the ground that that complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. From an order overruling the demurrer, this appeal was taken.
The complaint set forth that the defendants sold an interest in certain letters patent, covering the Purcell Voting Machine, to the plaintiff, for the consideration of six negotiable promissory notes of $500 each. At the time of their execution, a written agreement was entered into between all parties that the notes should not be paid…
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