Legal Opinion

Bell v. Offutt

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 23, 1874PublishedCited by 22 opinions

'Cases 38, 39—PETITIONS ORDINARY— APPEALS PROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED Sedgwick on Damages, pp. 229, 851. Chitty on Contracts, pp. 9, 284, 289. Parsons on Contracts, sec. 2, p. 5. Littell’s S. C. 253, Baker, &e. v. Le Grand. 3 Bibb, 289, McCall v. Welsh. 1 Marsh. 586, Carter v. Woolright. 5 Dana, 188, Dryden v. Lewis. 9 Dana, 296, Chandler v. Bobertson. 8 Dana, 151, McNairy, &c. v. Bishop, &c. 3 Marsh. 418, Burch v. Young. 1 Bibb, 459, Bodine v. Wade.

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'Cases 38, 39—PETITIONS ORDINARY— APPEALS PROM JEFFERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITED Sedgwick on Damages, pp. 229, 851. Chitty on Contracts, pp. 9, 284, 289. Parsons on Contracts, sec. 2, p. 5. Littell’s S. C. 253, Baker, &e. v. Le Grand. 3 Bibb, 289, McCall v. Welsh. 1 Marsh. 586, Carter v. Woolright. 5 Dana, 188, Dryden v. Lewis. 9 Dana, 296, Chandler v. Bobertson. 8 Dana, 151, McNairy, &c. v. Bishop, &c. 3 Marsh. 418, Burch v. Young. 1 Bibb, 459, Bodine v. Wade. CITED Story on Agency, secs. 391, 393, 269, 133. Benjamin on Sales, 2d ed., pp. 326, 558, 559. Story on Contracts, sec. 386.…

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE COFER

delivered the opinion of the court.

Offutt brought this action in the Jefferson Court of Common Pleas against Bell, alleging that about the 16th of September, 1873, he sold to Bell one thousand fat hogs, to average two hundred and sixty pounds gross, at the price of $4.90 per hundred pounds, to be delivered at the Bourbon House Stock-yard in Louisville, in three lots on different days, between the 1st and 10th of November, to be designated by Bell; that Bell failed to designate the days on which the hogs should be delivered, and that he (Offutt) had on the 7th, 8th, and 10th of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Allen v. PerryCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1869
  2. Cook v. BrandeisCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1861

3Cited by22 opinions

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  2. Brennon v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
  3. Hinote v. BrigmanSupreme Court of Florida · 1902
  4. Jenkins & Reynolds Co. v. Alpena Portland Cement Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1906
  5. McKnight v. Broadway Investment Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1912

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