Centennial Electric Co. v. Morse
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract with three counts, the first for damages of $1,115 for the defendant’s refusal to receive certain electric light bulbs which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant ordered, the second on a promissory note for $372 given in payment for other electric light bulbs and the third on an account annexed for the price of electric light bulbs valued at $187.80. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated May 1, 1914. On removal to the Superior Court the case…
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Contract with three counts, the first for damages of $1,115 for the defendant’s refusal to receive certain electric light bulbs which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant ordered, the second on a promissory note for $372 given in payment for other electric light bulbs and the third on an account annexed for the price of electric light bulbs valued at $187.80. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated May 1, 1914. On removal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Fox, J. At this trial the jury returned a general verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,770.02. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
This is an action of contract. There were two trials and there are three bills of exceptions. At the first trial the plaintiff recovered a verdict on the three counts of its declaration. The plaintiff sold the defendant forty-five thousand electric lamp bulbs, which, with the exception of twenty-three thousand, were delivered to him. The first count is for damages in the sum of $1,115 for the failure of the defendant to receive them. The second count is on a promissory note for $372, being one of a series of notes given by the defendant for the goods sold. The third count is on an account…
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