Dutwiler

The defendants were engaged in selling a certain kind of patented camp stove. In order to obtain a supply of stoves for the market they agreed with the plaintiff that the plaintiff would obtain a carload of iron and manufacture that iron into stoves, for which the defendants would pay to the plaintiff seventy-five cents per stove. The stoves were to be made in accordance with certain dies which the defendants were to furnish and did furnish. After a part of the stoves had been delivered and paid for, the defendants, with plaintiff’s consent, shipped the dies to Chicago for the purpose of using the same in manufacturing a quantity of stoves there, but with a promise to return the same to the plaintiff to complete his contract. These dies never were returned to the plaintiff. Of the iron remaining in the plaintiff’s hands a part had been blocked out for stoves and a part was untouched. The judgment, which was in favor of the plaintiff, covers a sum allowed for depreciation in value of the iron which had been blocked out and a sum covering the profits which the plaintiff would have made if the contract had been fulfilled. The defendants appeal from the judgment.

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