Caulkins v. Lavigne
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Sharpe, J., presiding. Bill by Edward B. Caulkins and others against Joseph P. Lavigne and the Bloomstrom Manufacturing Company to establish certain rights under a contract, and for an accounting. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
On the 6th of December, 1906, the defendant, Joseph F. Lavigne, of the first part, and the four complainants, as parties of the second part, entered into a contract reciting that Lavigne had invented a friction disc automobile, and was desirous of securing sufficient money for the purpose of buying materials necessary to construct an automobile with gasoline engine complete, and had requested parties of the second part to raise $1,200 with which to pay all the expenses of building said automobile. It was thereupon agreed that the parties of the second part should furnish $1,200 required, and…
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