Williams v. Perrotta
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the balance of the purchase price of a carload of grapes sold and delivered to the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Webb, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,122, and appeal by the defendant. On the trial a written contract was produced expressing an agreement between the parties for the purchase and sale of two carloads of muscatel wine grapes, including the carload in controversy.
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Action to recover the balance of the purchase price of a carload of grapes sold and delivered to the defendant, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Webb, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,122, and appeal by the defendant. On the trial a written contract was produced expressing an agreement between the parties for the purchase and sale of two carloads of muscatel wine grapes, including the carload in controversy. The decisive issue of fact was whether the carload of grapes in question corresponded in kind and quality with the written…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The trial court having once stated the plaintiff’s claim that the acceptance of these grapes by the defendant after he had inspected them was inconsistent with the defendant’s claim that they were not muscatel grapes and not reasonably fit for making wine, again called the attention of the jury to that claimed inconsistency as follows: “Again, I commend to you to carefully consider the conduct of the defendant in having anything to do with those grapes, if his claims are accurate, if they were bad, or more than half of them were rotten, they were not of the variety that he contracted to…
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