Devine v. Warner
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for breach of contract, brought to the District Court of Waterbury and tried to the jury before Cowell, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $590 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff, as assignee of his brother, John J. Devine, sues to recover damages for breach of an alleged contract for the sale of a lot of tobacco in the barns of the assignor, who had raised it, and of the value of several hundred dollars. The sale is claimed to have been made on September 22d, 1899, when the tobacco was upon the poles. It was then agreed between the parties that the tobacco was to be allowed to remain in the barns until cured, and when cured was to be stripped and placed in bundles weighing forty pounds to the bundle, as the defendant preferred bales of that weight, and…
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