Metropolis Manufacturing Co. v. Lynch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for failure to return or account for goods consigned for sale on commission, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for failure to return or account for goods consigned for sale on commission, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. This action was brought to the Superior Court for Fair-field county at its session held on the first Tuesday of April, 1898, by writ directing attachment of defendant’s body. The complaint alleged: “ 1. The plaintiff is a manufacturer and wholesaler of house-furnishing…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
A complaint must contain “ a statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, and a demand for the relief to which he (the plaintiff) supposes himself to be entitled.” General Statutes, § 872.
In this case the facts alleged are, an agreement between the parties by which the plaintiff, a manufacturer, was to consign his goods to the defendant for sale in accordance with the terms of the agreement; the delivery to the defendant, in pursuance of that agreement, of the goods described and of the value stated ; the occurrence of the condition by which, under the agreement, the plaintiff was…
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