Farwell v. Rogers
Farwell v. Rogers
Opinion of the Court
Two questions were raised upon the trial o1
The first question, then, to be decided, is whether the tender proved of the sum of money due on the contract was made in season. The contract was dated the 3d of March, 1847, and the money tendered became due and payable within a year from the date. The tender was made on the 3d day of March, 1848, and on that day the money due became payable, according to the decision in Bigelow v. Willson, 1 Pick. 485. That case was well considered, and the decision is applicable to the present case, for the reasons stated in the opinion of the court. The tender, therefore, was valid without the aid of the Rev. Sts. c. 100, § 14, which provides, that the payment or tender of payment of the whole sum, due on any contract for the payment of money, although made after the money has become due and payable, may be pleaded to an action subsequently brought, in like manner, and with the lilre effect, as if such payment or tender had been made at the time prescribed in the contract.
As to the other question, the defendant, as the assignee of Ropes, was bound to clear the premises from all the stones thereon, in the manner stipulated by the contract; and the plaintiff contended, that as the defendant was bound to clear three acres at least annually, until the whole should be cleared, the three acres to be cleared should be contiguous, and not in separate parcels; so that the plaintiff, who was entitled to the stones, might have a more equal annual supply than he might have if the same were cleared, as it was, in separate parcels. This construction of the contract was not adopted by the court, and we find nothing therein requir
Exceptions overruled.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Jacob Farwell v. Michael Rogers
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- Published