Sommer v. International Harvester Co. of America
Sommer v. International Harvester Co. of America
Opinion of the Court
The International Harvester Company sued Sam Sommer on a note given by him for the purchase-price of a tractor. A prima facie case for the plaintiff was admitted by the defendant who assumed the burden of proof and set up a counterclaim that the plaintiff had damaged him in the amount of $510 by reason of the breach of an implied warranty in the sale of six peanut “planters.” After the introduction of evidence the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount sued for; and the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled. Conceding, but not deciding, that the evidence demanded a finding that the peanut planters wore not merchantable and not reasonably suited to the use for which they were intended, in that they wasted peanuts, and thereby caused Sommer to incur the damage set up in his counter-claim, we think that the evidence clearly authorized the jury to find that the contract for the sale of the planters was rescinded by both parties; and Sommer, having returned the planters to the company, and having received from the company credit for the purchase-price thereof (the planters having been sold on credit), could not thereafter recover damages for a breach of the contract. “A rescission of the contract by consent, or a release by the other contracting party, is a complete defense.” Code, § 20-905. “The cancellation of a contract necessarily implies a waiver of all the rights thereunder
Judgment affirmed.
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