Legal Opinion

Zuck v. McClure & Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 7, 1881PublishedCited by 30 opinions

October 13th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mergur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey and Sterrett, JJ. Green, J., absent. Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny cotmiy: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 105. Assumpsit, by Zuck & Henry against G. T. Rafferty et al., trading as McClure & C.o.

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October 13th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mergur, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey and Sterrett, JJ. Green, J., absent. Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny cotmiy: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 105. Assumpsit, by Zuck & Henry against G. T. Rafferty et al., trading as McClure & C.o. The action was brought November 2üth’1879, the writ served andmarr. filed the same day, to recover $1,500 due plaintiffs for coke delivered to the defendants during tlie month of October, 1879, under a written contract. The fact of delivery and the price was not disputed. On' the trial, before…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson

This action was commenced in the court below on the 29th day of November 1879, and was to recover about $1,500 for coke delivered'by the plaintiffs to the defendants during the. previous October. There was no serious dispute as to either the delivery of the coke or the amount; but the defendants set up as a defence the breach of a contract on the part of the plaintiffs for future deliveries of coke. To state sai’d contract briefly, the plaintiffs had agreed to sell and deliver to the defendants the entire product of their Eldorado works, comprising forty ovens, at a fixed price per ton, and…

2Cited by30 opinions

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