Barron v. Frink

By the Court, Currey, C. J.:

The defendant agreed in writing to purchase of the plaintiff a quantity of pressed hay, estimated to amount to one hundred and ninety-three tons, at the price of thirty-five dollars a ton in gold coin, which he promised to pay as follows: One thousand dollars upon the execution of the agreement, which was dated the 29th of October, 1864; one thousand dollars in thirty days from that date, and the balance as the hay should be removed by the defendant from the place where it was then in stack. The agreement further provided that the hay should be weighed at the…