Chambers & Marshall v. Baldwin
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 20 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. A man who maliciously procures another to break his contract with a third person is responsible to such third person for the damages thereby sustained by him.
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Case 20 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. A man who maliciously procures another to break his contract with a third person is responsible to such third person for the damages thereby sustained by him. (Addison on Torts, pp. 10, 36; Bollock on Torts, pp. 455, 452, 454, 269; Lumley v. Gye, 2 E. & B., 216; Bowen v. Hall, 6 Q. B. Div., 333; Green v. Button, 2 C. M. & R., 707; Ashby v. White, 2 Smith’s L. Cas., 455; Cooloy on Torts, 497, 280; Benton v. Pratt, 2 Wend., 385; Rice v. Manley, 66 N. Y., 82; Walker v. Cronin, 107 Mass., 555; Jones v. Stanley, 76 N. C., 355; Haskins…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
Tlie cause of action stated in the petition of appellants is, in substance: That as partners doing business under the firm name of Chambers & Marshall, they made a contract with one Wise, whereby he sold and agreed to deliver to them in good order, during delivery season of 1877, his half of a crop of tobacco, then undivided, which he had raised on shares upon the farm of appellee, in consideration whereof they promised to pay on delivery at the rate of five cents per pound; that they were ready, able and willing to -receive and *123pay for the…
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