Howe Sewing Machine Co. v. Layman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The bond provides that it shall be binding if the business of the canvassers or their location should be changed by the company, notwithstanding they only agreed specifically to work at Virden or in its vicinity ; hence, when the change was made they were bound to accept the change and could not have refused, and they do not seem to have interposed any objection ; therefore the bond remained binding on all obligors for 'previous as welí as for future acts of Layman & Duncan.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Armstrong