TROY LAUNDRY MACHINERY CO. v. DOLPH

No. 149.

138 U.S. 617 (1891)

11 S.Ct. 412

34 L.Ed. 1083

TROY LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, v. DOLPH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Esek Cowen for plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.P. Lloyd for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant kept this contract for a year and then repudiated its obligations. The excuse made in its correspondence and alleged in its answer was, that the parol agreement between the parties, an agreement authorized by the directors of the defendant company, was a three years' contract; that the contract prepared by plaintiff was for five years; and that through inadvertence and mistake the contract thus prepared...

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