New England Box Co. v. Tibbetts
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action of Contract to recover damages for the nondelivery of certain lumber claimed by the plaintiff to have been sold to it by the defendants. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1917, Windham County, Stanton, J., presiding. At the close pf the evidence the Court directed a verdict for the plaintiff on the question of liability, and submitted the case to the jury on the question of damages only, to which the defendants excepted.
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Action of Contract to recover damages for the nondelivery of certain lumber claimed by the plaintiff to have been sold to it by the defendants. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1917, Windham County, Stanton, J., presiding. At the close pf the evidence the Court directed a verdict for the plaintiff on the question of liability, and submitted the case to the jury on the question of damages only, to which the defendants excepted. "Verdict for the plaintiff to recover one dollar damages and costs. Judgment on the verdict. Both parties excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement by
Chief Justice Watson.
The plaintiff is extensively engaged in manufacturing wooden boxes, having factories in six different places in the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and using in connection therewith around thirty million feet of lumber each year. At the time material here the defendants were together engaged in getting out and selling lumber in the towns of Townshend and Newfane, this State. In December, 1916, and in the forepart of the year 1917, some ten or a dozen letters, to and from, passed between the parties relative to the sale of lumber by the defendants to…
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