Edwards v. Hardwood Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, William W. Edwards, John Edwards and Isaac N. Bushong, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Charles M. Pond, J., made March 9, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs manufacture staves at Mancelona, Mich.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, William W. Edwards, John Edwards and Isaac N. Bushong, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Charles M. Pond, J., made March 9, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs manufacture staves at Mancelona, Mich. They brought this action July 29, 1893, to recover of defendant, Hardwood Manufacturing Company, a corporation manufacturing flour barrels at Minneapolis, pay for four carloads of barrel staves shipped to it in March, 1893, from Mancelona .at $5.80 per thousand free on board cars at plaintiffs’ mill. Defendant answered that it…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
The action is to recover the price of nineteen, car loads of barrel staves sold and delivered by plaintiffs to defendant free on board cars.
*181The answer denies the sale of more than fifteen car loads, and sets up as counterclaims — First, an overpayment by mistake when paying for the fifteen car loads. Second, that plaintiffs shipped to it four car loads which it had not ordered, and that it paid the freight and other charges, notifying plaintiffs that it would try to dispose of the four car loads for them, if desired.
The communications between the parties were entirely by letters and…
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