Brownlee v. Bolton

The parties contracted as in the margin* con-*219corning the sale of cedar posts and telegraph poles and on ocd&sion of the first shipments Bolton and McRae caused the posts to be inspected by a disinterested person as they were put on board. But Brownlee claimed that their agreement with the contract must be settled by inspection at the place or places of destination, and he threw out a large number as culls, and made a charge for their handling and dock-age. Bolton and McRae asserted that the place of shipment was the place of acceptance, and that they would not submit to have the inspecting…