Fort Worth Packing Co. v. Consumers' Meat Co.
Fort Worth Packing Co. v. Consumers' Meat Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a question under the seventeenth section of the Statute of Frauds. According to the evidence, in July eighteen hundred .and ninety-four, the Consumers’ Meat Company made a contract with the Fort Worth Packing Company for the purchase of a car-load of dressed beef. The contract was made at Fort Worth, Texas, by H. C. Rohr, the President of the Consumers’ Company. It was not in writing ; and nothing was given in earnest nor in part payment. Rohr saw the cattle killed, dressed and packed ; superintended the loading of the beef, and expressed himself as satisfied with its quality and condition.. . He agreed that it would be paid for when it arrived in Baltimore. The beef was shipped to the order of the Fort Worth Packing Company, Baltimore. The bill of lading was marked: “ Ship-, pers’ order, notify Consumers’ Meat Co., Baltimore, Md.”
An action was brought by the appellant against the appellee ; and the Court below decided in substance that the contract was void.
Judgment affirmed.
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- THE FORT WORTH PACKING CO. v. THE CONSUMERS' MEAT CO.
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- Sales—Statute of Frauds, Sec. —Acceptance and Receipt. Defendants made an oral contract for the purchase of a car-load of dressed beef. He superintended the loading of it, said that he was satisfied with its quality, and promised to make payment upon its arrival in B. The seller shipped the goods under a bill of lading in his own name, endorsed, and attached the same to a draft upon the defendant which the latter refused to pay. In an action to recover the price, Held, that the contract was unenforceable under the seventeenth section of the Statute of Frauds, because there was no memorandum in writing of the agreement, or acceptance and receipt of the goods or part payment.