Rounsavell v. Pease
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Richland, County. Action to recover the price of four sewing machines, which, it is alleged in the complaint, were sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendants. The answer was a general denial.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Richland, County. Action to recover the price of four sewing machines, which, it is alleged in the complaint, were sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendants. The answer was a general denial. On the trial, defendants read in evidence an instrument, partly written and partly printed, signed by all of the parties, which purports to be a contract between them for the sale by the plaintiff and the purchase by the defendants of sewing machines, to be sold by the latter in a certain locality; the price to be paid therefor being a specified discount from…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
The law of this case, as we understand it, was-so clearly and accurately stated by the learned circuit judge in bis charge to the jury, that we can do no better than to adopt his language as a sufficient expression of our views. The charge is as follows:
“ First. If the terms of an agreement for one to act as the agent of another, or purchaser of his goods, are verbally agreed upon, aud a paper is signed in blank, to be filled up by one of the parties, it is incumbent upon him to fill up the paper in the exact terms talked of and agreed upon. If, in filling up a blank, he inserts other terms…
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