Folkes v. Pratt
Folkes v. Pratt
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court should have permitted the appellant to prove, as she asked, that the goods received from the appellees were not of the quality represented, and that they defrauded the appellant by the substitution of a quality of goods not contemplated by the contract and not ordered, and that complaint was made just as soon as the fraud was discovered. The offer to make this proof was made in due time by the appellant, and was" denied by the court on the ground, presumably, that the contract recited that, as a condition precedent to the establishing of any claim arising from a breach of warranty, the purchaser should notify the seller, within five days of the receipt of the goods, of any objection on account of failure of the goods in quality or other respect. The court overlooked the elementary proposition that fraud vitiates all contracts, and that the conditions- of a contract are predicated of the idea that it is an honest un
Reversed and remanded.
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- Mahala E. Folkes v. Walter Pratt
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- Evidence. Written contract. Parol. Fraud. Fraud vitiates all contracts, and. the conditions of a contract are predicated of the idea that it is an honest undertaking; hence in a suit upon a written contract, or order for goods, containing a warranty of quality upon condition that the buyer should, within too limited a time after their reception, notify the seller of any objection on account of the quality of the goods, it is competent for the defendant to show by parol that the plaintiff intentionally and fraudulently substituted inferior goods to those ordered, and that owing to the nature of the goods the time granted by the contract for their examination was unreasonably short and the condition imposed an impossible one.