Dolan v. Jean
Dolan v. Jean
Opinion of the Court
In the answer of defendant it is alleged, in substance, that the furnace sold and delivered by plaintiffs was so sold under a special warranty, that it should maintain a heat of fifty degrees above the outside temperature, for which the defendant agreed to pay the sum of $400, provided the furnace answered to the warranty; that the furnace wholly failed to maintain the degree of heat warranted, and that defendant has been injured, etc.
The main fact in issue on the trial was whether or not there had been a failure of the furnace to answer the warranty. There was no serious controversy upon the fact that the furnace was sold with warranty.
On the trial the court gave to the jury the following instruction :
“ If you find from the evidence that the plaintiff simply warranted said furnace to maintain a heat of fifty degrees in said church, upon the understanding of the parties that there were proper flues in said churchy then in that case if you find from the evidence that the cause of said furnace failing to maintain a heat of said degree was owing to defective or insufficient flues in said church, and that said furnace would have maintained such heat if there had been sufficient flues in said church, then in that case if said furnace failed to maintain a heat of fifty degrees it would not be a breach of the warranty last above mentioned.”
This instruction is complained of as calculated to mislead the jury, and erroneous under the evidence.
There was evidence tending to show that the flues in the church building were defective, and there was no con
For this error the judgment of the circuit court is
Keversed.
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