Jewett & Sherman Co. v. Tindall
Jewett & Sherman Co. v. Tindall
Opinion of the Court
This action grows out of a claim filed by appellant with appellee to recover certain glassware shipped’ by it to the Sheldon Glass Company to be exchanged for certain other glassware, and to recover certain expense incident to such attempted exchange, and in the event that the glassware which appellant sought to recover could not be delivered, then to recover the value thereof. The claim was disallowed by appellee, there was a trial by the court, and a finding and judgment for appellee from which, after motion for a new trial was overruled, this appeal.
The only error assigned is the court’s action in over
It appears by the evidence, which is undisputed, so far as here involved, that in August, 1919, the Sheldon Glass Company, through its agent, the A. R. Thompson Company of Chicago, sold to appellant a car load of glass jars, consisting of 1,472 cases. Before the car of glass arrived at its .destination, because of the urgent need of the glass company for money, appellant paid for the glass by check. Upon receipt of the. glass, appellant used fifty-five gross, or about 328 cases, but, because of certain defects, it was unsatisfactory. It notified the glass company’s agent of the condition of the glass, sending a sample jar for inspection, with inquiry as to, “What have you to suggest in the matter?” Mr. Rittmiller, a member of the agent firm, went to Milwaukee, where appellant was located, and inspected the ware, after which, and upon returning to Chicago, he called the president of the glass company and informed him of the condition of the ware, whereupon the president told the agent that the company had at that time another car of glass ready for shipment which it would load at once and ship to appellant, and instructed the agent to get in touch with appellant and have it reload the car then in Milwaukee and return it to the glass company, and that it would make an exchange of cars, giving good glass for the defective glass. Thereupon, the agent wrote appellant requesting it. to ship the car of glass back to the factory, stating that they had another car coming through and that they would make shipment in a week or ten days. Mr. Rittmiller testified that the president informed him that the company had a car ready in cases, and that it would ship as soon as a car could be loaded and that it expected to ship it
In Dunn v. Oneida Community (1910), 177 Fed. 540, pursuant to a contemplated contract for electric power, an electric company offered to exchange two forty-cycle motors in question for two sixty-cycle motors defendant then had in operation, which offer was accepted. The forty-cycle motors were sent to defendant’s premises, but were not installed, nor were the sixty-cycle motors disconnected or delivered to the electric company, or to its receivers. Defendant wrote to the electric company’s receivers that it had decided to keep the sixty-cycle motors and to return those shipped by the electric company to be exchanged, but subsequently refused to do so. It was held that the title to the forty-cycle motors -so shipped to the defendant to be exchanged never passed to it, but that defendant elected to rescind the contract, and was therefore bound to return the motors to the electric company or account for their value, the court using the following simple illustration: “I do not understand that A can say to B, T will give you my white horse for your bay mare,’ and on B’s saying, T will do it,’ and on A bringing his white horse on the premises of B to make the exchange, lose title to both horses, B asserting that as the white horse is delivered he will keep it, and that as the bay mare has not been taken from the stable and delivered he will keep that also. When that becomes the law, grand larceny or horse larceny will have been sanctioned by the court so deciding.”
In Fisher v. Tauber (1912), 174 Ill. App. 436, the court states the rule to be that: “If the contract of exchange was rescinded, the law implied on the part of the defendant that on receipt of the horse he had traded to plaintiff, he would return to plaintiff the horse
The judgment is reversed, with instructions to the trial court to grant a new trial. ,
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