Dooley v. Stillson

Action of assumpsit. Plea, general issue under which defendant sought to recoup damages to an .amount equivalent to plaintiffs’ partial payment on account. The case is before this court on exceptions to direction of a verdict for defendant by the Superior Court.

Plaintiffs are receivers of a dissolved copartnership which had entered into a written agreement with defendant to purchase for $15,000 a farm, household supplies, crops, stock, farming implements, tools, wagons and harnesses on September 9, 1919. Pursuant to its terms $6,000 was then paid on account and the balance was to be paid in…