Beattie v. Gay's Express, Inc.

Prior to the events leading up to this controversy the plaintiff and defendant were each doing an interstate trucking business. The plaintiff had his office at Wilder in the Town of Hartford, and the defendant had offices at White River Junction and Bellows Falls. On July 5, 1938, the parties entered into a contract under seal, conditioned upon the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, whereby the defendant agreed to buy the plaintiff’s transportation business, including his trucks, a building lot and two story frame structure at Wilder, which was used for a terminal building, and…