Rodgers v. Jones

This is an action of contract to recover the price of a lot of rough calfskins, alleged to have been sold and delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendants.

The testimony introduced by the plaintiffs at the trial was to the following effect: On Wednesday, November 6, 1872, the lot of calfskins in question was piled, apart from other goods, in the plaintiffs’ warehouse, when Frederick Jones, one of the defendants, came in with one Kuebler, (a currier, who was to curry the skins when the defendants bought them,) and made an oral agreement with John L. Rodgers, one of the plaintiffs, to purchase…