Devine v. Warner
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for breach of contract, brought •to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Peasley, Deputy-Judge; verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiff claimed to have proved, in the trial court, that with his assistance, his brother, John J. Devine, in the season of 1899, raised a crop of tobacco upon their father’s land in Suffield, which crop in the fall of that year John J. Devine sold to the defendant at an agreed price; and that the defendant having afterwards refused to take the tobacco or to pay for it, John J. Devine was compelled, by reason of a fall in the market price of such tobacco, to sell it for $528.53 less than the price agreed upon with the defendant. The plaintiff, as the bona fide owner of such right of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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