Philip J. Ritter Conserve Co. v. Kolb
Philip J. Ritter Conserve Co. v. Kolb
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
On June 21, 1908, the president of the defendant com
The only direct communication shown between the parties to this suit occurred about three weeks after the order was given, when a ’phone conversation was held between Mr. Kolb and a representative (Mr. Ritter) of the plaintiff, in which, according to Mr. Kolb, Ritter stated — “that we would receive them in time” but Ritter’s testimony was that he said, “Mr. Kolb, it is physically impossible to make delivery at that date.” The dispute is circumscribed by this ’phone conversation, and could only be disposed of by a jury. The defendant further complains that the court excluded an offer to prove that the defendant at the time the order was given, was conducting a newspaper advertising campaign, having for its object the full distribution of these whistles on July 16th, but there is no suggestion in the record that this important feature of the contract was ever brought to the notice of the plaintiff, so as to affect the terms of the written order as to delivery — soon as possible — and the objection as made by the plaintiff was properly sustained. Nor was there any error in the plaintiff being permitted to show that it proceeded promptly, and used
The judgment is affirmed.
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- Contract — Bale—Articles for special purpose — Evidence. In an action to recover tbe contract price of 50,000 tin whistles, which were manufactured for the defendant by the plaintiff under a written order providing that they should be delivered as “soon as possible,” a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff will be sustained where it appears that the order was given on June 21st, that it took four weeks to make and assemble the necessary dies and materials for the whistles, that three weeks after June 21st a phone conversation took place, in which it was alleged that the defendant said that plaintiff should receive them on July 16th, that this was denied by plaintiff, that the whistles were of no value to any one but defendant and were tendered on August 31st and refused. ' In such a case the' defendant cannot prove that he wanted the whistles for distribution under an advertising scheme on July 16th, without showing that plaintiffs knew of such a plan.