King v. Faist
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for the failure to sell and deliver one thousand barrels of flour. Writ dated June 24,1892. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Maynard, J., who ruled that the action could be maintained and found for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff was a flour merchant, doing business in Boston under the name of W. S. King and Company, and the defendants were manufacturers of flour at Milwaukee, selling it in Boston through their agent, one Bronson. The plaintiff and Bronson were members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and their dealings were made under the usages and rules of the .Chamber, according to which, on sales of flour for shipment from a mill, the purchaser’s reasonable time for ordering the mill to ship, or for “ ordering out ” the flour, was fourteen days from the date of purchase; and shipment in fourteen…
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