Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta R.R Co. v. Jesup

Where a known, defined and described article is actually supplied according to contract, there is not, as a general rule, an implied warranty that it shall answer the particular purpose intended by the buyer, although that may have been communicated to the seller (Chanter agt. Hopkins, 4 M. & W., 393 ; Ollivant agt. Bayley, 5 Q. B., 288.)

It is only where an article is contracted for to be applied to a particular purpose, and in such manner that the buyer necessarily trusts m the judgment or skill of the manufacturer or dealer, and not to his own, that there is an implied term or warranty that…