Jessup v. Humphreys
Jessup v. Humphreys
Opinion of the Court
J. D. Humphreys sued W. L. Jessup, L. D. Jessup, and E. H. Jessup as copartners, averring in his petition that defendants ordered from him fifty pieces of piling of specified dimensions; that he tendered to defendants said piling in accordance with the required specifications; that said piling was cut especially to fill defendants’ order and was “unmarketable to others;” that defendants accepted nineteen pieces of said piling and rejected the remaining thirty-one pieces; and that plaintiff was damaged in the sum of $223.20. Briefly stated, the defense was that defendants ordered the piling in the regular course of their business, to fill a customer’s order, and that thirty-one pieces were rejected because they failed to come up to specifications and could not be used by defendants. The jury trying the case returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $111.60, and defendants made a motion for a new trial.
It appears from special ground 2 that the court charged section 4127 of the Civil Code (1910), which is as follows: “When the sale is of goods to be manufactured and delivered at a future time, the question of risk will depend upon the fact, to be ascertained in each case, whether the parties stipulated for a particular article in course of construction, or an article filling the specifications of the contract. In the former case the title passes to the vendee before delivery; in the latter it does not.” It is averred in special ground
Judgment reversed.
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