Post v. Garrow
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for York county. Tried below before Normal, J. 2 Benjamin on Sales, § 1054. Metz & Albrecht, 52 111., 491. Clark v. Dales, 20 Barb., 42. ' Porter v. Bose, 12 Johns.,. 209. Garret v. Gonter, 42 Penn. State, 143. Kitzinger v. Sanborn, 70 111., 146. Avery v. Stewart, 2 Conn., 69. Barrett v.. Allen, 10 Ohio, 426. Salter v. Burt, 20 Wend., 205. Barnes v. Eddy, 12 R. I., 25. 2 Parsons on Cont., 178. and 179 — 4th Ed. 2 Hill, 378, note b.
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Error to the district court for York county. Tried below before Normal, J. 2 Benjamin on Sales, § 1054. Metz & Albrecht, 52 111., 491. Clark v. Dales, 20 Barb., 42. ' Porter v. Bose, 12 Johns.,. 209. Garret v. Gonter, 42 Penn. State, 143. Kitzinger v. Sanborn, 70 111., 146. Avery v. Stewart, 2 Conn., 69. Barrett v.. Allen, 10 Ohio, 426. Salter v. Burt, 20 Wend., 205. Barnes v. Eddy, 12 R. I., 25. 2 Parsons on Cont., 178. and 179 — 4th Ed. 2 Hill, 378, note b. Brooklyn Oil Befinery Co. v. Brown, 38 How., 449.
1Opinion of the Court
Cobb, Ch. J.
The principal question in this case is, whether a contract for the sale of cattle, “to be delivered at Bradshaw station on or before May 20,1883,” May 20,1883, being-*684'Sunday, became due and terminated on that day, or did it 'continue alive and capable of being executed during the whole of the following Monday.
The cases cited by counsel for defendants in error seem to settle, to my satisfaction at least, the law to be, “That,” in the language of Gould, J., in the leading case of Avery v. Stewart, Sup., “as Sunday cannot, for the purpose of performing contracts, be regarded as a day…
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