Crystal Ice Co. v. Wylie
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sedgwick district court; D. M. Dale, judge. STATEMENT. This was an action to recover damages for breach of contract, brought by J. A. and D. W. Wylie against the Crystal Ice Company, a corporation, and E. R. Powell, its manager.
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Error from Sedgwick district court; D. M. Dale, judge. STATEMENT. This was an action to recover damages for breach of contract, brought by J. A. and D. W. Wylie against the Crystal Ice Company, a corporation, and E. R. Powell, its manager. The first count of the amended petition filed in the court below, upon which a recovery was had, alleged the following facts, in substance : In April, 1898, an oral contract was made by the Crystal Ice Company, through Powell, its manager, in which the company agreed with the plaintiffs to furnish ice to them from day to day during the year 1898 at the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
The plaintiffs below sought to enhance their damages by alleging and offering testimony to show that the cause of the breach of contract on the part of the ice company was that the latter had agreed to deliver all the ice manufactured by it to another company in violation of the anti-trust laws. The motive which actuated the defendants below in violating their contract with the Wylies was an immaterial consideration. The ice company, having refused to deliver ice as it agreed, was guilty of a violation of its contract and liable for such…
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- Gray v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1891
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