Nonantum Worsted Co. v. North Adams Manufacturing Co.
Nonantum Worsted Co. v. North Adams Manufacturing Co.
Opinion of the Court
This is an action for the price of worsted yarn. The yarn was sold by the pound, wound upon paper tubes called cops, and was sent to the defendant packed in cases. The plaintiff sent to the defendant bills expressed to be for so many cases, lot such a number, so many pounds “ net ” at a certain rate. The only question at the trial was whether the plaintiff was entitled to count the weight of the paper tubes in making up the
It follows from what we have said that the court had a right to refuse rulings based, as the three requested by the defendant were, on the hypothesis that the sale was a sale of yarn simply, since that was the very question between the parties, and the court found the fact in favor of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff put in evidence that it was its custom, except in some cases of special contract, to charge purchasers for the weight of the paper tubes, and that the defendant was informed of this custom, and knew that there was no allowance for tare of tubes. An exception was taken to permitting a witness to testify that the plaintiff did not treat the defendant differently from its other customers with respect to price and allowance for tare. But this only meant that the plaintiff dealt with the defendant according to its custom, which it said the defendant knew, with perhaps an implied denial of fraud or concealment.
Two of the sales were made by one Solis, who testified that by the terms of the bargain no tare was allowed, and that after one of them he sent a letter to the plaintiff as the order for the goods. This letter was put in, subject to the defendant’s exception, and stated the sale with the words “ no tare.” Of course this was intended to fortify Solis’s account of the bargain, which was contradicted by the defendant. It is enough to say that the admission of the evidence is made immaterial by the judge’s statement that he did not accept that account as proved.
Exceptions overruled.
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