Mansfield Machine Works v. Common Council

The plaintiff and defendant entered into a written contract, on the twenty-sixth day of December, 1884, for the sale by the former and purcháse by the latter of a steam fire-engine and attachments.

The first portion of the contract consists of a minute description of the engine and its machinery, not necessary to be set out for any purpose involved in the decision of the ease. The latter part of the contract is as follows :

“ The price of said engine to'be fifteen hundred dollars, and to sell three hundred feet of 24-inch 4-piy rubber hose for $40, and proper couplings, all to be delivered on…