Nashville C. & St. L. Ry. v. Woods
Nashville C. & St. L. Ry. v. Woods
Opinion of the Court
It is conceded by appellant’s counsel that the first count of the complaint, as amended, was not subject to the demurrers. But it is insisted that the ■second count, as amended, was defective, in that it does not allege a readiness and willingness on the part of the
Each of the counts seeks a recovery of damages for the breach of an express contract, which is set forth in the first count in this language: “Plaintiff agreed to sell to defendant, and defendant agreed to buy from plaintiff,- such cross-ties as he could procure and deliver on the Tennessee river above Guntersvill'e, and not above Caperton’s Ferry, within a reasonable time, and pay for same at 38 cents for first-class and 19 cents for second-class each. That said ties were to be delivered on the bank of Tennessee river by plaintiff, and accepted and paid for by defendant on said river,” etc. In the second count this contract is described in this language: “That the defendant would accept, buy, and pay for cross-ties from the plaintiff, such cross-ties as he could purchase and deliver on the bank of the Tennessee river, not above Caperton’s Ferry, within a reasonable time, and to be delivered on the Tennessee river above Gun-tersville, and not above Caperton’s Ferry, on said river, at 38 cents for first-class ties and 19 cents for second-class ties, in consideration of plaintiff’s undertaking to secure, or procure or buy, and deliver such ties to defendant,” etc.
The testimony adduced does not in the remotest de-gee tend to- prove the contract as laid in these counts. Indeed, there is no proof whatever that the defendant agreed to buy such cross-ties as the plaintiff could procure and deliver, etc. To the contrary, the contract between the parties, if one was made, was that plaintiff was to purchase the ties belonging to one Houser and to deliver those ties to defendant. Indeed, it is shown beyond cavil by the testimony of plaintiff himself and
It is unnecessary to consider any other assignment of error.
Reversed and remanded.
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