Hiram Walker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Walker
Walker began selling his whiskey as Hiram Walker’s Club Whiskey. It became very popular and American distillers became angry, and forced the US Government to pass a law requiring that all foreign whiskeys state their country of origin on the label. This move backfired; Hiram Walker’s Canadian Club Whiskey became more popular following the change.
In addition to these notable accomplishments, Mr. Walker was also a cattle breeder and was party to a famous contracts case known as “The Pregnant-Cow Case.”
I hope it’s not being implied that involvement in such a legal dispute as “The Pregnant-Cow Case” is anything less than noble.
By-the-by, said Pregnant Cow Case is officially Sherwood v. Walker and is indeed famous, serving as a prime example of what’s known in the legal world as a “mutual mistake.” Two parties enter a contract believing something to be true (a cow is infertile), only to have it turn out to be false (surprise, knocked up!). Does the contract still stand despite the mistake? Well, it’s complicated: for the contract to be voidable, the mistake has to be material rather than collateral, which mmmmmmnnnnnnmgfjrh#6berr@
Sorry, I nodded off there for a second. I can’t help it: legal stuff bores me to absolute, abject death.
My sister keeps telling me to apply to law school. I usually tell her there’s no way I’d pass the bar—I’d rather go in. But now I’m wondering if I’ve found a cure for my chronic insomnia…
