Soper v. Tyler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the refusal of the defendant to accept two car-loads of oats ordered by him, brought to the City Court of Waterbury and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the court, Peasley, Deputy-Judge ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This cause was before us at a former term. A new trial was subsequently had in the District Court, on issues closed to the court, and the plaintiffs again recovered judgment.
The trial court properly held that the correspondence between the parties, set out in the report of our former decision (73 Conn. 660), constituted a valid and actionable contract. The finding shows that the plaintiffs were wholesale dealers in grain, at Boston, buying their grain mainly in the West; that it was the custom of such dealers to consign grain so bought in car-loads to New England points, with directions to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hatch v. DouglasSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Soper v. TylerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
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