Davis v. Read

This cause was heard upon pleadings and proofs, and was quite fully and elaborately argued. The bill alleges, substantially, that Davis and Rankin, the complainants, having for some time prior to the transaction in question been engaged as a firm, under the style of Davis & Rankin, in the business of furnishing creamery supplies and erecting creamery buildings in various parts of the country, and having their head-quarters at Chicago., entered into a written contract, on or about the 17th day of December, 1885, with the defendants, who were farmers, or were to some extent engaged in that…