McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Cochran

This was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff in justice’s court to recover the purchase price of a self-binding harvester.

The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice that defendant would show that the machine was warranted to him by the plaintiff, when purchased, to do first-class work, to do as good work as a machine owned by James Cochran, a brother of the defendant, who resided in the neighborhood, and to give perfect satisfaction to the defendant; that defendant was to have the privilege of trying the machine in doing his harvesting, and unless it complied with the…