Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-24
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Oeice Of c. u. MCCORMICK 4 Bro,
Chicago, May 10th, 1870.

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Chicago, May 10th, 1870. )
Anindividual, named Jno.Strachan,
of Mineral Point, Wis, seems bent
on making himself ridiculous with
noisy demonstrations, because we
have taken our reaper agency away
from him. That he feels sore at los
ing the agency is evident from the
great ontcry no makes about it. 1t
is likely the first instance on record
wherein a man insisted on being an
agent by force and against the
wishes Of o principal. Now, since
the u. S. Court has put an injunction
on him, restraining him from acting
as agent, and ordered him to give
upposscssion ofour property through
receiver, he attempts to give vent
to his bad temper by abusing US and
our machines, in nnmersurcd terms
We suppose we can survive it'll Re-
hecting farmers will know how far
John is sincere or honest in his de-
nunciation of our machines, when
they consider That be plead bard for
the aeeucy Of them this year, and
tGac hia abuse commenced only when
he iouH4 he c0ald not get leave To
sell thcln. We hcsitated about even
nohcine Tile mau'a abuse, but con-
cladci tuat b was due to our friends
ia the aistri9t I'd 1--WE the following
facts in the case and having done 40,
wo sb2i aot attompt 10 answer any
oi,hngsaatc that May be launched at
US. Jo0H StIaahan refused 20 con-
tinue as agent in 1870, unless we
would promise a large increase in
commissions for selling. This we
declined doing, and after giving him
a reasonable time for reflection, we
appointed other parties to succeed
nina thing everybody win admit
we had g right to do Stracban just
then wanted to continue at he old
rates, and wrote us the following
letter.
Messrs c. II. MccoRmeK BRO:
DEAR SIRs You can send on the
contract as you say. and / will see
you and talk matters over generally,
soon. Truly yours,
J. STRAcHAN.
Mineral Point, March 22nd. 1879.
1t was too late however. as we
had contracted the district to other
agents. A few days later he became
so alarmed at losing the agency, that
he came to Chicago, and begged hard
10 be GLL0lccd to act cUen as local agent
at Mineral Point. When he found
that he lad really lost the agency,
he became abnsiyely angry, and
threatened we should never get pos
session of our property he held, until
we paid him same immense sum for
damages-altbough not two weeks
before we had settled up his account
in full. How summarily the U. S.
Court dealt with him, and how
quickly he was ordered to give up
our property through the formality
of a receiver, and how soon the in
junction was placed on his inter-
meddling with our affairs hereafter,
the following extract will show:
(Milwaukee Sentinel, May 9th, 1901
ain the United States Circuit
Court, Judge Miller presiding, the
case Of G. II. Mccormick and Lean
der ]. Mccormick, Of Chicago,
againsr John Strachan, of Mineral
Point, in equity, came up yesterday
on motion Of complainants for an
injunction against defendant and
appointment of receiver and the
same having been argued by Finches,
Lynde aud Miller, tor complainants,
and Messrs. Palmer, Hooksr and
Pitkin, for deieudant-the Court
thereupoc allowed the injunction
and also appointed Frederick G..
Smyth, Of Madison. receiver.
Ibla very irnportant case, in
volving carly $1,000 IN amount
and grows ont ~ transactions while
defeadap was actiag as the agent oil
complabsnts IL the sale OF their
harF cstiHg Machines, during the
years Isl 1868 aud 1869. Tue or
der appointing the receiver requires
the defendant, Sttachan, forthwith
20 turn over All notes, accounts,
machines and other property in his
hands to the SAID receiver, Smyth !;
and the injunction allowed, restraints
the defendant, Strachan, from inter-
meddling with any OF the property
in any way or manner. Thus ali
who are owing TOR the machines sold
by Strachsn, must make payment TO
the receiver, Smyth."
His SANDERS about our machines
are best met by bis own letter, de-
string the agency for 1870. 1t is no
secret, that some castings on our
Advance MachiDe, last year, were
defective and broke an accident not
at all unusual in 10 troducing a new
machine the frat season. These
breakages caused trouble where
agents like Straehan gave machines
little or no attention, personally. All
our customers know that we spared
neither time nor money to replace
them with improved castings, max
ing the machines as perfect as they
were intended to be. This was, and
is being done, free of expense to Gus
toners. In districts where agents
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