Garvin Machine Co. v. Hutchinson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Garvin Machine Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of September, 1895, upon the report of a referee who dismissed the complaint at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The complaint unites two causes of action : The first for the sale of foot presses at the agreed price of $140 ; and the second for the reasonable value of work, labor and services, and materials furnished in and about the manufacture of tools, fixtures and appurtenances for the making of an incandescent electric lamp switch.
The evidence shows that the defendant, with a view to making an electrical switch, some of the parts of which he had and which it was necessary to arrange and put together, needed certain tools for that purpose. These had to be made, and in their manufacture…
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