Safford v. McDonough

This is an action of contract to recover the price of a quantity of leather, exceeding fifty dollars in value, alleged to have been sold by the plaintiffs to the defendant There was no memorandum in writing of the contract, and the purchaser did not give anything in earnest to bind the bargain or in part payment.

It appeared on the trial that the defendant on May 17, 1872, went to the plaintiffs’ store and agreed to purchase the leather at the price named, to be paid for by a satisfactory note.

On the thirty-first day of the same month, he again went to the plaintiffs’ store, examined the…