Powers v. McLean
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Millard F. Powers and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of July, 1896, upon the report of a referee dismissing their complaint. The action was brought to recover damages because of the nondelivery of goods sold to, and paid for by, the plaintiffs.
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Appeal by the plaintiffs, Millard F. Powers and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of July, 1896, upon the report of a referee dismissing their complaint. The action was brought to recover damages because of the nondelivery of goods sold to, and paid for by, the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs ordered fifty bales of mosquito netting through one Loisson, in October, 1895. Their letter to Loisson reads as follows: “Cleveland, Ohio, October 29/95. “L. C. Loisson, Great Northern Hotel,…
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J. :
The question here of the defendant’s liability is not a question of fact pure and simple. . It is rather a question as to the legal conclusion which should follow the inferences properly deducible from certain undisputed facts. It is quite true that the plaintiffs made no direct personal contract with the defendant for the purchase of the goods in question. They never in fact saw the defendant upon the subject of the sale. But it is equally true that they made no direct, personal contract with R. & H. Adams. They never saw any member of that firm upon this same subject. What is…
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