Alspaugh v. Dillon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover an alleged balance for a car-load of butter sold by the plaintiffs to the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $710, and appeal by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
A car-load of butter was shipped from the plaintiffs’ creamery in Kansas to the defendants in New Haven under an agreement that it should be fancy, fresh creamery butter, and that the defendants should pay for the same the outside New York quotations, net, on the day of arrival, delivered to the defendants. The defendants advanced $3,000 toward the payment for the butter before its arrival in New Haven, upon a draft accompanied by the bill of lading sent through the banks; the Kansas bank through which it was forwarded having agreed to indemnify the defendants. Upon the payment of the draft…
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