Barre Granite Co. v. Fraser
Supreme Court of Vermont
General Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the March Term, 1908, Washington County, Hall, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence each party moved that a verdict be directed in its favor. The defendant’s motion was overruled, to which he excepted. Verdict ordered for the plaintiff, and judgment thereon, to which the defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. The defendant’s motion for a verdict should have been granted.
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General Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the March Term, 1908, Washington County, Hall, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence each party moved that a verdict be directed in its favor. The defendant’s motion was overruled, to which he excepted. Verdict ordered for the plaintiff, and judgment thereon, to which the defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. The defendant’s motion for a verdict should have been granted. The sole consideration for the acceptance of the assignment was that the invoice be indorsed by the Sterling Granite Co. in favor of plaintiff;…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
It appears by the exceptions that in August, 1905, the defendant Fraser, a wholesale dealer in granite in Mansfield, Ohio, made a written contract with one Jordan, who did business in Barre in this State under the name of the Sterling Granite Company, for the manufacture of ten monuments at $100 apiece; that Jordan, the next November, assigned the contract to the plaintiff, the Barre Granite and Quarry Company, to secure it for' stock and material furnished him for the construction of the monuments; that the plaintiff thereupon gave the defendant written notice of the assignment, which he…
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