Woodruff & Beach Iron Works v. Adams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trover for sundry articles of machinery; brought to ihe Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried on the general issue closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The court found the following facts: In the summer of 1863 the defendants were building a gristmill in the town of Wethersfield.
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Trover for sundry articles of machinery; brought to ihe Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried on the general issue closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The court found the following facts: In the summer of 1863 the defendants were building a gristmill in the town of Wethersfield. By a contract between them and one Martin Luther, a mill-wright, the latter agreed to furnish, and place in the mill, the running machinery therefor, at the agreed price of three thousand dollars. The contract price was paid as agreed, by the defendants to Luther, in several payments as the work progressed.…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
The' property which is the subject of this suit was obtained from the plaintiffs by the fraudulent representations of Luther, who falsely claimed to be the servant of the defendants and to be authorized to purchase the goods on the defendants’ credit. Luther in fact had no such authority. The defendants had contracted with him that he should furnish and place in their mill the running machinery therefor at and for the agreed price of $3,000. This contract price had been paid as agreed in several payments as the work progressed, and Luther had practiced a fraud upon the defendants by putting…
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