Ehrsam v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

By a contract in writing Casper Brown purchased from J. B. Ehrsam & Sons, for use in his flouring-mill, two Wolf gyrators. The gyrators were shipped direct from Wolf Brothers, the manufacturers, at Chambersburg, Pa., to Brown at Oakley, Kan. He received them, paid the freight charges from St. Louis to Oakley, and set them up in his flouring-mill. A controversy arose over the quality of the machines and he refused to pay the balance of the purchase-price. The contract provided that the title to the machines should remain in the vendors until…