National Novelty Import Co. v. Reed

This is an action to recover $296, the aggregate price of jewelry and other merchandise sold and delivered by plaintiff to defendants. Under a written order plaintiff delivered the goods to a carrier at St. Louis, Missouri, consigned to defendants at Trumbull, Nebraska. Pour or five days after the order was given, defendants notified plaintiff not to ship the goods, but the latter contends that the delivery antedated' the notice. The consignment reached Trumbull, but defendants did not accept it, and never took it from the possession of the carrier, but notified plaintiff that it was…