Jackson v. Jones
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Hon. George W. Beazley, Circuit Judge. A contract must be construed according to the plain and apparent sense thereof. Greenlf. Ev. sec. 278 et scq.
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Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. Hon. George W. Beazley, Circuit Judge. A contract must be construed according to the plain and apparent sense thereof. Greenlf. Ev. sec. 278 et scq. There being a subsisting contract at the time, suit must have been brought thereon. 24 Wend. 202; 2 Pick. 275; 9 Ala. 108. Defendant’s two last instructions were clearly the law. 5 Shep. 372; 4 Iredell 247. The defendant was clearly entitled to the corn, under the contract, at forty cents. 4 E. C. 941; 2 B. 389; Salk. 113; 7 East. 558. If the whole amount of corn,contracted for, did not remain after Jones had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Compton
The parties to the action in this case, made their contract in writing, which is as follows :
“Agreement between John T. Jones and Henry G. Jackson, “ witnesseth; that said Jackson agrees to take of said Jones “ fifteen hundred bushels of corn, at forty cents per bushel, and “ ten thousand pounds of fodder at seventy-five cents per hun- “ dred, which the said Jones agrees to deliver to the said Jack- “ son on his farm, provided the same shall be made and “ gathered on the said farm after supplying what may be needed “ by the said Jones during the year 1854. The delivery to be “ made and the…
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