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77 N.H. 594

90 A 786

Brown v. Randall

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided May 5, 1914

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1914-05-05

Assumpsit, against Henry E. Randall, Eugene F. Hobson, and four others, to recover damages for breach of contract. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the April term '1912, of the superior court by Pike, J., on the exception of each defendant to the denial of his motion for the direction of a verdict in his favor.

Decided 1914-05-05

Per Curiam.

¶1 There is no evidence that Eugene F. Hobson ever promised the plaintiff anything. It can be found that the other defendants promised her that if she would put her machinery into the proposed business her husband should manage it, that after she had performed her part of the agreement they assumed the management, and that in consequence of this she lost her machinery; in other words', it can be found that she lost her machinery in consequence of the defendants’ breach of contract. As to Eugene F. Hobson, the exception is sustained and the verdict is set aside. As to the other defendants the order is,

¶2 Exception overruled.

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