Cameron v. Peck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for goods sold; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury, on the general issue, before Granger, J. Yerdict for the plaintiffs, and motion for a new trial for error in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
There are no grounds for disturbing the verdict and granting a new trial in this case.
The charge of the judge, so far as the order or paper described in the motion is concerned, gives the defendant no reasonable cause of complaint. He insisted that he signed it and delivered it to Beecher on Sunday, and that so the agreement contained in it was void and of no effect as to him; and that the jury should have been so instructed, if they so found the facts. The paper bore the date of a secular day, and it was admitted that the plaintiffs had no knowledge that it was executed on Sunday, if it was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Winn v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1835
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