Curtis v. Watson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Special assumpsit. Heard at tbe June term, 1891, upon demurrer to the declaration, Taft, J., presiding. Demurrer overruled and declaration adjudged sufficient. The defendant excepts.
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Special assumpsit. Heard at tbe June term, 1891, upon demurrer to the declaration, Taft, J., presiding. Demurrer overruled and declaration adjudged sufficient. The defendant excepts. The declaration was as follows : “ On the 7th day of January, A. D. 1890, at Hardwick, in the county of Caledonia, the defendant in consideration that the plaintiff would work and sell for the Woodbury Granite Co. the lands and property of said company for the sum of thirty thousand dollars, the defendant then and there agreed to pay the plaintiff'the sum of two thousand dollars within thirty days from the date…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
START, J.
This cause was .heard on the -defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration. The declaration alleges that, on the 7th daj- of January, 1890, the defendant executed and delivered to the plaintiff a certain writing, as follows : “ I hereby agree to give W. S. Curtis, of Randolph, the sum of two thousand dollars, provided that said Curtis shall do work and sell for Woodbury Granite Co. .the lands and property of the same, for the sum of thirty thousand dollars cash in hand or approved paper, said amount to be paid said Curtis within thirty…
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