J. Richardson & Co. v. Noble

The plaintiffs are manufacturers of shoes. In the spring of 1903 they sold the defendants, who are retail shoe merchants, by sample, a bill-of 108 pairs of “ladies patent leather tipped shoes,” 84 pairs at $2.10, the remaining 24 pairs at $1.50 per pair, amounting in all to $212.40, upon which the defendants paid $100 September 10, 1903. The shoes were delivered at defendants’ store between May 27th and May 30th. The defendants commenced to sell the shoes “in two or three days or a week after their arrival.” The defendants claim to have sold all of the $1.50 shoes and 56 pairs of the $2.10…