Weld v. Came
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for money had and received to the plaintiffs’ use, being the price of a billiard table. In the superior court Brigham, J., directed a verdict for the plaintiffs on facts which he reported as follows: “ The plaintiffs offered testimony that in the summer of 1864 they made a contract in writing with the defendants that the defendants should manufacture for them five billiard tables, to be completed within four months, to be delivered on the wharf packed in cases and…
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Contract for money had and received to the plaintiffs’ use, being the price of a billiard table. In the superior court Brigham, J., directed a verdict for the plaintiffs on facts which he reported as follows: “ The plaintiffs offered testimony that in the summer of 1864 they made a contract in writing with the defendants that the defendants should manufacture for them five billiard tables, to be completed within four months, to be delivered on the wharf packed in cases and ready for shipment, at their vessel, when they had a vessel for the East Indies. In August 1864, the plaintiffs notified…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.
There was evidence in this case which tended to show a sale and delivery of the billiard table in question to the plaintiffs. In August 1864 it was finished and boxed up ready for being shipped; the defendants having previously agreed to make it and deliver it to the plaintiffs on the wharf. The plaintiffs were informed that it was finished, boxed up and ready for shipment. The defendants proposed to the plaintiffs to dispose of it by letting another person have it; but the plaintiffs objected to this and claimed that particular table to ship, In January 1865 the defendants presented their…
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