Goodman v. Whiting Lumber Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 114, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 3, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1912, No. 1872, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Leon Goodman, Thomas Whitehead and S. G. Hammer, Trustees in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company v. Whiting Lumber Company. Assumpsit for lumber sold and delivered. Before Ferguson, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 114, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 3, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1912, No. 1872, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Leon Goodman, Thomas Whitehead and S. G. Hammer, Trustees in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company v. Whiting Lumber Company. Assumpsit for lumber sold and delivered. Before Ferguson, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,021.27. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings and instructions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
This case belongs to that large class in which, owing to the great development of commerce, the parties were *232strangers and their contractual obligations are to be discovered in a series of communications by letter, telegram or telephone. What is called the documentary evidence covers one hundred and forty-four printed pages of the appendix to the paper books. The judgment of this court is of importance to those immediately interested; but as no new principle of law is involved, indeed no application of established principles to an unusual state of facts, there is no sound…
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