Snyder v. Rainey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 132, Oct. T., 1900, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., June T., 1898, No. 277, overruling exceptions to referee’s report in case of William P. Snyder, trading as W. P. Snyder & Co., v. W. J. Rainey. Assumpsit on an alleged contract. The defendant’s pleas were non assumpsit, set-off and payment.
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Appeal, No. 132, Oct. T., 1900, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., June T., 1898, No. 277, overruling exceptions to referee’s report in case of William P. Snyder, trading as W. P. Snyder & Co., v. W. J. Rainey. Assumpsit on an alleged contract. The defendant’s pleas were non assumpsit, set-off and payment. Defendant in his affidavit of defense claimed a certificate in his favor against the plaintiff for $8,164.32. The plaintiff filed a replication in answer to the claim for a certificate, denying any liability to defendant. By agreement of the parties the case was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
We have carefully reviewed all the testimony in this case, oral and written, and a discussion of it would have no proper place here. The main question was one of fact, and the learned referee found that the minds of the parties to the contention, having been clouded with misunderstandings, had never met in a contract and that no such agreement, as is relied upon by the plaintiff, had been entered into by the defendant. He, there*359fore, found that the former, having received cote from the latter, not under a contract nor at contract prices, was indebted for it for…
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