Harlow v. Parsons Lumber & Hardware Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for breach of contract to purchase a car-load of lumber, brought to and tried by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
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Action to recover damages for breach of contract to purchase a car-load of lumber, brought to and tried by the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs, doing business in Hartford, and the defendant, doing business in Unionville, Connecticut, entered into a contract by telephone for the sale and purchase of a car-load of lumber then in transit by rail from Laurel, Mississippi, to Wallingford, Connecticut. The plaintiffs thereupon caused a sales slip and invoice of the lumber to be made out, which…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The complaint alleges that on May 15th, 1906, the plaintiffs and the defendant mutually agreed that the plaintiffs should sell to the defendant, and that the defendant should purchase from the plaintiffs, one carload of lumber, consisting of 18,072 feet of yellow pine flooring, for $38.50 per thousand feet, said lumber being then in transit and to be delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendant on arrival; and that on the 15th of August following, on the arrival of the lumber, the plaintiffs offered to deliver the same to the defendant and the defendant refused to accept it.
As the complaint…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Loomis v. Norman Printers Supply Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
- Hatch v. DouglasSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Soper v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
- Soper v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
3Cited by4 opinions
- Santoro v. MackSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
- Burn v. Metropolitan Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1919
- John Arborio, Inc. v. ScapinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1936
- Landry v. TroegerConnecticut Superior Court · 1947