Perry v. Mount Hope Iron Company

This is an action to recover damages of the defendant corporation for refusing to receive a cargo of “ bolt and nut scrap and boiler-plate ” iron, so called, which the plaintiff claims the defendant agreed to buy at the rate of 87| cents per hundred, delivered at its works in Somerset, Massachusetts. Upon trial in the Court of Common Pleas, the jury-found a verdict for the plaintiff. The case is before us on the defendant’s petition for a new trial for alleged misrulings, and on the ground that the verdict 'was against the evidence and the weight thereof. The plaintiff lives and does business…