Craddick v. Emery

Citations

• 93 Wash. 648
• 161 P. 484
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1250

Syllabus

<p>Patents — Sale of Invention — Failure of Consideration. Notes given for a valueless unpatentable device, upon representations that it was valuable and patentable, are without consideration.</p> <p>Same — Sale—Consideration—Estoppel. A purchaser of a mechanical device who was not a mechanician is not estopped to assert want of consideration by the fact that he made his own investigations and inquiries before purchasing, where it appears that he relied upon the seller’s statements that it was valuable and patentable rather than upon opinions of those of mechanical knowledge who examined it casually and believed it impracticable.</p>