Kent v. Halliday Brothers

This is an action of assumpsit for breach of warranty in the sale of Paris green.(1) The first count in the declaration sets out substantially that the plaintiff is a farmer in East Providence, and at the time in question had a large crop of growing potatoes ; that he purchased of the defendants twelve pounds of Paris green which they promised and warranted to be pure Paris green and that it would kill the potato-bugs upon the plaintiff’s aforesaid growing crop of potatoes ; that he applied said Paris green in a reasonable and proper manner to said growing crop, but that it was impure, weak,…