Jordan, Marsh & Co. v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the breach of a contract to manufacture and deliver goods, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, for $106.15 only, and appeal by them for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Action to recover damages for the breach of a contract to manufacture and deliver goods, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, for $106.15 only, and appeal by them for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The rulings and charge of the court upon the question of damages were erroneous and prejudicial to the plaintiffs. Griffin v. Golver, 16 N. Y., 489; Devlin v. Mayor, 63 id., 8; Cohn v. Norton, 57 Conn., 493; 1 Suth. on Damages, 134;…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
This action was brought to recover damages for the non-performance of a contract. The plaintiffs are large dealers in dry goods at wholesale and by retail. The defendants are manufacturers of knit underwear. The complaint alleged, generally, that on the 16th day of March, 1892, the defendants agreed to manufacture for the plaintiffs a large number of knit undergarments of various styles and at agreed prices, amounting in the whole to nearly twelve thousand dozen, and to deliver the same at various times but all before the 1st day of December, 1892, for which the plaintiffs were to pay; that…
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