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Contracts Keyed to Marshall
Wood v. Boynton
Citation:
25 N.W. 42 (1885)
ProfessorMelissa A. Hale
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The defendants are partners in the jewelry business. Before the twenty-eighth of December, 1883, the plaintiff was the owner of and in the possession of a small stone of the nature and value of which she was ignorant. On that day she sold it to one of the defendants for the sum of one dollar. Afterwards it was ascertained that the stone was a rough diamond, and of the value of about $700. After hearing this fact the plaintiff tendered the defendants the one dollar, and ten cents as interest, and demanded a return of the stone to her. The defendants refused to deliver it, and therefore she commenced this action.
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