Standard Register Co. v. Bolton-Emerson, Inc.

Standard Register Company had a contract with Bolton-Emerson, Inc., for the latter to build and deliver a “hot-melt coater” machine to be used by Standard for the manufacture of pressure-sensitive labels. The machine was not built, and Standard eventually sued Bolton and two of its officers, John W. Fitzgerald and Glen I. Urquhart, on alleged grounds of breach of contract, misrepresentation, etc. After lengthy pretrial proceedings, the action came to trial, jury-waived, in the Newburyport sitting of the Superior Court for Essex County, and resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff against all…