Manning v. Chesky
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover money alleged to have been received by the defendant to and for the use of the plaintiff, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Smith, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $3.38, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
The complaint was in three counts. The first alleges that on May 7th, 1914, the defendant sold to the plaintiff a box of oranges for $3.25, and agreed to deliver it to the plaintiff at his residence in South Manchester, Connecticut, on the eighth day of May, 1914, in a sound condition; that the plaintiff paid the defendant $3.25 on May 7th, 1914, for the oranges, in pursuance of their agreement; that the defendant did not deliver the oranges until May 16th, 1914, when the defendant, by its agent, the Franklin Express Company, tendered the box of oranges to the plaintiff, but the plaintiff…
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