Standard Acceptance Corp. v. Connor

The statement of the year “1938” in the bill of sale was so obviously an inadvertence, of a kind so common when one year is closing and another is beginning, that it seems to me any person with ordinary intelligence would at once appreciate that January 10, 1939, was intended. The majority opinion, I think, savors more of technicality than it does of common sense. Even a court of law in an action between the parties would, I am sure, overlook the error as an obvious one and construe the date as though written “1939.” Tolman v. McLay, 114 Conn. 98, 100, 157 Atl. 647. We have never interpreted…