Chadwick v. Wiggin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Contract. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the December Term, 1919, Windsor County, Stanton, J., presiding. Yerdiet and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the ease.
1Opinion of the Court
' Powers, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover for a quantity of building materials sold to the defendant through her husband, who died before the trial, as her agent.
[1, 2] Subject to exception, the plaintiff was allowed to testify that he made the contract of sale with the husband, and that the 'materials were bought for use in repairing certain houses owned by the defendant. The latter treats the question raised by this exception as one of the competency of the witness, and argues that when competency is the question, the matter of agency is a preliminary question for the court. But the-…
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