Whitcomb v. Woodworth
Supreme Court of Vermont
Heard on referee’s report, September Term, 1881, Powers, J., presiding. Judgment for the defendant. The referee found: On April 1st, 1878, the plaintiff and D. W. Weston made a bargain or agreement with reference to a certain organ.
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Heard on referee’s report, September Term, 1881, Powers, J., presiding. Judgment for the defendant. The referee found: On April 1st, 1878, the plaintiff and D. W. Weston made a bargain or agreement with reference to a certain organ. The bargain or agreement was reduced to writing, and was in these words and figures: Burlington, Yt., Arril 1st, 1878. This certifies that I have hired of W. H. S. Whitcomb, of Burlington, one Smith American Organ, style 7, (it being the organ delivered to me by L. R. Austin for said Whitcomb,) in the following terms : fifty-seven dollars and fifty ceüts to be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
The contract of April 1, 1878, we think, was, in legal effect, a conditional sale of the organ from the plaintiff to Weston. The amount stipulated to be paid, as rent, for the use of the organ, for one year, was the full value of the organ. For the last payment the plaintiff took Weston’s note with a surety. There is no provision in the contract, by which Weston could return the organ at the end of the year, or at any other time, an essential element in a lease or bailment. The clause in the contract : “ It is expressly understood that until…
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