Show JUDGMENT AGAINST SEARS ROEBUCK CO INCREASED we reproduce below the story of a law suit stilt that may prove interesting for many of our readers who have read some of the extravagant claims of 01 the catalogue house it if tile the incident referred to is a criterion of the reliability thereof we wonder what the end will be ed seats roebuck co the chicago mail order house has bas been ordered by the courts 0 to o pay damages of to charles A stickney co st paul minn manufacturers of 0 gaso line engines it is the result of a suit in which it was shown that sears roebuck co had listed gasoline en ell allies in ia their catalogues cataloguer catal at a higher power than the engines possessed in the alist trial judgment was given ri against sears roebuck co for an appeal was taken and a new trial granted on oil technical g grounds but the second award was oven even higher than the first otias shown tint court gc ais cais roebuck k co had tried to involve stickney co in the wrong doing by asking them to make the same nadu lent claims of horse power in the stickney catalogue this they did not succeed in doing it was shown in court that sears roebuck co listed a 21 2 horse power engine in their big book as a 3 horse power engine one of 4 avs 2 horse power as a 5 horse power en gine one of 5 horse power as 6 horse power engine and so on all along the line it f is eti estimated mated that sears roebuck co made from 13 15 to 20 additional dit ional on each engine by means of the higher rated horse power it is an easy matter for 1 or dealers to advertise that they sell machines cheaper than other dealers but when it is shown in court as in this case that the engines are not ot of the capacity advertised it is wise for people who send their money to catalogue houses to know that they get what they order before they crow over their neighbor that they are buying cheap er than those who purchase irom from manufacturers who allow the purchaser to have the machine put in and tested to see it if it comes up tip to the guarantee before lie he is compelled to pay for it it will be borne in it mind that sears roebuck co sell the economy chief cream separator and that they have made very extravagant claims in their advertisement in regard to this separator and that it is wise vise for people who send their money for these machines to be sure that they get what they have ordered order e d an and paid for in it advance before they can see or test the article the scout |