Bass v. Walsh
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Si. Louis Circuit Court. Plaintiffs’ instructions given: , 1. If it appear from the evidence that plaintiffs by their agent Hawley agreed to sell and that the defendant agreed to buy the 22B bales of hay at the price and sum of $33 per ton ; that Hawley thereupon handed defendant a ticket showing the number of bales of hay and where the same was, and that by the custom of merchants said ticket would authorize the hay to be delivered to defendant as soon as the…
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Appeal from Si. Louis Circuit Court. Plaintiffs’ instructions given: , 1. If it appear from the evidence that plaintiffs by their agent Hawley agreed to sell and that the defendant agreed to buy the 22B bales of hay at the price and sum of $33 per ton ; that Hawley thereupon handed defendant a ticket showing the number of bales of hay and where the same was, and that by the custom of merchants said ticket would authorize the hay to be delivered to defendant as soon as the same was weighed, and that defendant thereupon stated that he did not want it weighed on that day; that plaintiff assented…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was a suit brought by the respondents against the appellant to recover the value of two hundred and twenty-three bales of hay, alleged to have been sold to the appellant at the price of thirty-three dollars per ton. The record shows that the hay had just been taken from the steamboat Sucker State, and was placed on the wharf in the city of St. Louis, and was consigned to the care of one Hawley, a commission merchant; that appellant agreed to purchase the hay at the price of thirty-three dollars per ton, which agreement Haw-ley acceded to, and immediately delivered to him a card, with the…
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- Shindler v. HoustonCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1845
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