Purrington v. Grimm
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue with notice. Trial by-jury at the September Term, 1908, Rutland County, Haselton, J., presiding. Verdict directed for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff’s evidence did not tend to show a completed contract. Judgment on verdict. The plaintiff excepted. The opinion states the case. There was an unqualified meeting of the minds with reference to the evaporator, tank, spouts, and buckets, and the contract therefor was complete.
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Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue with notice. Trial by-jury at the September Term, 1908, Rutland County, Haselton, J., presiding. Verdict directed for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff’s evidence did not tend to show a completed contract. Judgment on verdict. The plaintiff excepted. The opinion states the case. There was an unqualified meeting of the minds with reference to the evaporator, tank, spouts, and buckets, and the contract therefor was complete. The mere request that the defendant send him a tapping bit and reamer, which together cost seventy-five cents, was only an…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The suit is to recover damages for the nondelivery of goods purchased. The defendant denies that there was a sale. The question is whether certain correspondence shows a contract.
*468The defendant was engaged in the manufacture and sale of sugar utensils and supplies. The plaintiff, wishing to fit up his sugar place for the making of maple sugar, applied to the defendant by letter for his catalogue of evaporators and sugaring utensils. The defendant replied, enclosing a price list of evaporators, and stating that he had mailed him a catalogue, and that if he would place an order by return mail…
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