Jones v. Vance Shoe Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
1Opinion of the Court
BUNN, District Judge.
This an action of assumpsit upon a written contract between two stockholders in a corporation, to recover damages. There was a general demurrer to the declaration, which was sustained by the court below, and a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant. The writ of error is brought to reverse that judgment. The decision of the court seems to us manifestly correct. Among many other reasons, this one seems conclusive; that the contract is quite too vague and indefinite in its terms to be enforced in a court of law. There are three counts in the declaration, all setting out…
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