Reeves & Co. v. Cress
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Mower county by plaintiff corporation to recover $740, the purchase price of certain farm machinery. The cause came on for trial before Whytock, J., and a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of defendants. From an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, it appealed.
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Action in the district court for Mower county by plaintiff corporation to recover $740, the purchase price of certain farm machinery. The cause came on for trial before Whytock, J., and a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of defendants. From an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, it appealed. The legal intendment of the contract of sale clearly implies that the title was to remain in plaintiff until defendants were satisfied with the machinery; and the only question in the case is whether defendants accepted the machinery as satisfactory. All evidence bearing on the…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
Plaintiff brought this action against defendants to recover $740, the purchase price of “one Reeves grain separator, one Nethery’s wind stacker, one weigher and one feeder.”
The answer alleges that on July 29, 1895, plaintiff made “a conditional sale” of the property to defendants, and
“Represented and warranted that said separator, stacker, weigher and feeder were well made of good material; that the same were in good order and repair; that the same would do good work for which the same were intended, as a separator of grain, stacker and weigh-er, and would do better work in that regard than…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Mulcahy v. DieudonneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- Reeves & Co. v. CressSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Plano Manufacturing Co. v. RichardsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902