Miller Saw-Trimmer Co. v. Cheshire
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. This is a suit brought by the plaintiff, the Miller Saw-Trimmer Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, for the specific performance of a contract entered into between its predecessor, Miller Saw-Trimmer Company of Michigan, a Michigan corporation, hereafter referred to as the Michigan Company, and Edward Cheshire, one of the defendants, a resident of Wisconsin, by which contract…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. This is a suit brought by the plaintiff, the Miller Saw-Trimmer Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, for the specific performance of a contract entered into between its predecessor, Miller Saw-Trimmer Company of Michigan, a Michigan corporation, hereafter referred to as the Michigan Company, and Edward Cheshire, one of the defendants, a resident of Wisconsin, by which contract the said Cheshire assigned to the Michigan Company certain inventions relating to the feeding and handling of paper, and…
1Opinion of the Court
*290The following opinion was filed July 3, 1920:
RoseNBerry, J.
The trial court held, and we think correctly, that no estoppel arose as against the plaintiff by, reason of the transactions had between the plaintiff and Cheshire at the time Cheshire went to Pittsburg to exhibit his new invention to the plaintiff. While it was argued strenuoüsly by the defendants that the plaintiff is estopped, certainly no estoppel arose upon the facts as found by the trial court, and the findings in relation to estoppel are amply sustained by the evidence.
The trial court found that the wooden model exhibited by…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Aspinwall, Manuf'g Co. v. GillUnited States Circuit Court · 1887
- Mississippi Glass Co. v. FranzenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1906
- Reece Folding Mach. Co. v. FenwickCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1905
- Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. Chicago Brake & Manufacturing Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1898
- Atlas Press Co. v. EamesMichigan Supreme Court · 1919
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Guth v. Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1934
- Miller Saw-Trimmer Co. v. CheshireWisconsin Supreme Court · 1922
- Davis v. EatonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1931
- Miller Saw-Trimmer Co. v. CheshireCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1924
- Fullerton Lumber Co. v. TorborgWisconsin Supreme Court · 1955
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