Henry Pratt & Co. v. Paris Gas Light & Coke Co.

It was held by the Appellate Court, as they were warranted by the evidence in doing, that the contract between appellants and appellee was entered into by the latter upon the faith of representations by appellants that the right to use the patent was. not disputed, which representations were known by appellants to be untrue when made, and further, that upon becoming aware of the fact that the rights of appellants were disputed, (in respect of which'fact there can be* no longer any controversy,) appellee was justified, as we think it unquestionably was, in its refusal to proceed under the…