Loomis v. Norman Printers Supply Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for a breach of a contract of conditional sale, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Wolfe, J verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $696, and appeal by the defendant. September 16th, 1905, the defendant made a conditional sale to the plaintiff of two printing-presses and a paper-cutter.
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Action to recover damages for a breach of a contract of conditional sale, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Wolfe, J verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $696, and appeal by the defendant. September 16th, 1905, the defendant made a conditional sale to the plaintiff of two printing-presses and a paper-cutter. June 2d, 1906, and before the terms of this contract had been fully executed, it was by mutual agreement rescinded and á new contract of that date entered into. This contract, like the former, was a conditional sale of certain…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Numerous errors are assigned. Only those relating to a few subjects, however, call for consideration.
The court was asked to instruct the jury, in substance, that the words “about June, 1906,” used in the contract between the parties to define and limit the time within which the defendant was to make delivery of the printers’ machinery and equipment which were the subject of the contract, in the absence of a peculiar trade meaning to be attached to them, were to be taken in their ordinary meaning; that this meaning fixed the time as any time in June, 1906, or a reasonable time thereafter, and…
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