Bradstreet v. Rich
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON EXCEPTIONS AND REPORT UpOll motion to Set aside tllC verdict. Assumpsit on account annexed, for eleven cargoes of ice, claiming the amount due with interest to be five thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars and forty-three cents. The writ was dated February 5, 1877. This case has been once before at the law court and is reported in 72 Maine, 233. ' The second trial was at the October term, 1881, and the verdict was for six thousand and fifteen dollars.
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ON EXCEPTIONS AND REPORT UpOll motion to Set aside tllC verdict. Assumpsit on account annexed, for eleven cargoes of ice, claiming the amount due with interest to be five thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars and forty-three cents. The writ was dated February 5, 1877. This case has been once before at the law court and is reported in 72 Maine, 233. ' The second trial was at the October term, 1881, and the verdict was for six thousand and fifteen dollars. It now comes to the law court on exceptions and motion of the defendant. The material facts are stated in the opinion. cited : On the…
1Opinion of the CourtAppletoN, C. J.
On May 6, 1876, at New York, the defendant made an agreement under seal, with Hixon W. Field, to sell him ten thousand tons of river ice of a certain description, delivered within a certain time, free on board of vessels at the place of landing on the Kennebec river or its vicinity, at two dollars and fifty cents per ton, for which Field was to pay on presentation of a sight draft with bill of lading and weigher’s certificate attached thereto. For the contract in full, see Bradstreet v. Rich, 72 Maine, 233.
Subsequently the plaintiffs signed on the back of the defendant’s contract with Field,…
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