Parrot v. Mexican Central Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the Mexican Central Railway Company, Limited,* a corporation organized under R. L. c. Ill, §§ 281-285, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged agreement to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the production of a book to be called “ The Sportsmen’s Guide Book of Mexico.”
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Contract against the Mexican Central Railway Company, Limited,* a corporation organized under R. L. c. Ill, §§ 281-285, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged agreement to pay the reasonable expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the production of a book to be called “ The Sportsmen’s Guide Book of Mexico.” Writ dated February 14, 1907. In the Superior Court the case first came on to be tried before Pierce, J., who, after a part of the plaintiffs’ evidence had been introduced, discharged the jury and ordered that the action be continued. The plaintiffs soon after filed…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
In this case there was evidence from the two plaintiffs that an oral agreement for the payment of money was made with them by one McDonald, the defendant’s general passenger agent in the city of Mexico, which, if it was binding upon the defendant as a contract, justified and required a finding for the plaintiffs. McDonald was not called as a witness, nor was Murdock, the defendant’s passenger traffic manager, who was said by the plaintiffs to have been present when this agree*188ment was made in Mexico, and to have participated in making it and to have acted under it.
The defense was a general…
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