To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society. - Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act.

That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.

Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before.