Ranger & Co. v. Hearne

There was error in the District Oourt in overruling the motion for a new trial. The verdict is not supported by the evidence; the ends of justice were not reached.

The written contract between the parties is in no wise ambiguous, and admitted of no sort of parol evidence to vary it or explain it away. The legal import and significance of the contract is this : Ranger & Co. sold to Hearne an engine and sawmill valued at three thousand gold dollars, to be paid for in cot*31ton of the crop of 1867, to he delivered at Bryan, at eight cents per pound in gold.

Hearne sold Ranger & Co. cotton of his crop…