A Selection of Cases of the Law of Contracts, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Selection of Cases of the Law of Contracts, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Christopher Columbus Langdell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Selection of Cases of the Law of Contracts, Vol. 2 Declaration on an agreement by the defendants to employ the plaintiff 's wife to sing and play in an opera. At the defendants' theatre. Breach: that the defendants refused to allow the plaintiff's Wife to per form according to the agreement. Pleas 1. That defendants did not agree as alleged. 2. That plain tiff 's wife was not ready and Willing to perform. 3. That plaintiff rescinded the contract before breach. Issue joined. At the trial before Field, J at the Middlesex Michaelmas Sittings, 1875, judgment was entered for the defendants, with leave to move to enter judgment for the plaintiff for 831. A notice of motion was given accordingly, and a cross order was obtained by the defendants for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, and that the damages were excessive. The facts proved and the course of the trial are fully given in the judgment of the Court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.