Legal Opinion
St. Johnsbury & L.C.R.R. v. Skeels & Weidman, Inc.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 3, 1963No. 1948PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
The defendant corporation is a feed and grain dealer in Swanton, Vermont. Sometime in October 1956 the defendant’s president, Skeels, received a call from a broker in Canada offering to sell a carload of grain consisting of two hundred 100-pound bags of bran and three hundred 100-pound bags of reground oat feed. The defendant did not know from what source the broker would procure the shipment nor where it would originate.
On the morning of October 19, 1956, the plaintiff’s agent at Swan-ton notified the defendant that a carload of grain had arrived and been switched to the defendant’s siding.…
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- Chicago Great Western Railroad v. LowrySupreme Court of Kansas · 1925
- Quigley v. WileySupreme Court of Vermont · 1935
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