Bell v. Jordan
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On agreed statement of facts. Remanded for assessment of damages according to opinion. Assumpsit to recover damages for the breach of a contract whereby the defendants agreed to sell and deliver to the"plaintiff 5000 cases of sweet corn during the year 1908. The defendants failed to sell and deliver any sweet corn to the plaintiff under this contract, thereupon the plaintiff brought this action for the recovery of damages.
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On agreed statement of facts. Remanded for assessment of damages according to opinion. Assumpsit to recover damages for the breach of a contract whereby the defendants agreed to sell and deliver to the"plaintiff 5000 cases of sweet corn during the year 1908. The defendants failed to sell and deliver any sweet corn to the plaintiff under this contract, thereupon the plaintiff brought this action for the recovery of damages. The action was commenced in the Superior Court, Cumberland County. An agreed statement of facts was then filed and the case sent to the Law Court with the agreement that…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This is an action to recover damages for the breach of a contract for the sale of sweet corn, and the case comes to this court on an agreed statement of facts.
The plaintiff was a wholesale grocer doing business at Philadelphia, and the defendants were packers of sweet corn, doing business at *69Portland, Maine, with factories at North Turner and New Gloucester. In the month of January 1903, the plaintiff entered into the following written contract with the defendants, viz:
“ Sold to Mr. James Bell, Philadelphia, Pa.,
For account of The United Packers, Portland, Maine.
“Five thousand (5000) cases, 2…
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