Collins v. Rockwood
New York Supreme Court
Before Smith, P. J.; Harding and Haight, JJ. Appeal from a judgment of the county court of Oswego county, reversing a judgment of a justice’s court in that county. The action was brought to recover the purchase-price of furs sold by plaintiff to defendant. The defense was a general denial. The trial was had before a jury, and a verdict in favor of the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHardin, J.
Upon the trial the plaintiff testified that on the 22d of December, 1876, he sold the defendant a muff and boa for the price of ten dollars, and that the defendant asked him to charge the same to him; that he did so, and that the defendant had never paid for them, and still was owing plaintiff for them.
Upon his cross-examination plaintiff testified that he saw the defendant in his store in the spring, in April, the latter part, 1877, and he asked him for the amount of the purchase-price of the furs, and that he dunned him again in the fall of 1877. That the defendant said he had a memorandum…
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