Gilbert v. . Danforth
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, had been affirmed, and a motion for a new trial denied.
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Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, had been affirmed, and a motion for a new trial denied. This was an action of assumpsit, to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a contract in writing, in the words following “ For value received, I promise to pay Martin Gilbert, three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, in castings, such as said Gilbert shall select and direct, such as are cast at the Middleburgh furnace, which I agree to deliver at Gilbert’s dwelling-house, at Ghent, in…
1Opinion of the Court
*Welles, J.
— By the contract upon which the „ ^ action was brought, the defendant was bound to pay the plaintiff $362.50, by the first day of March succeeding its date (March 1844), in such castings as were made at the Middleburgh furnace, at 4J cents per pound; the plaintiff having the right to select the castings, which the defendant was bound to deliver at the dwelling-house of the latter. A portion of the castings were selected by the plaintiff and delivered to him by the defendant; the last payment was made on the 16th of March 1844. In March 1847, more than three years after the…
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