Murray Co. v. Peacock
Murray Co. v. Peacock
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
This is an action for the credit portion of a cotton gin. The defendant admits the execution of the notes sued on, but sets up failure of consideration, and a counterclaim for damages for defective ginning. The defendant claims that the ribs of the gin were so far apart that the seed passed between them and “seeded” the cotton; that he did not discover the defect until he offered 88 bales of cotton for sale,, and then he found that the seeded cotton was worth three and one-half cents per pound less than properly ginned cotton. The gin was sold under a written contract, which contained an express warranty, limiting its liabilily to defective parts, and required notice in writing, or by telegraph, to the home office within ten days. The plaintiff obligated itself to supply defective parts of which it had notice within ten days from the time the defendant began to operate the gin.
The defendant admitted the execution of jthe notes sued on. The defendant did not show notice within ten days, or indeed for some six weeks after the operating began, and only then by inference from the fact that the plaintiff sent a man to inspect and help to put the gin in order after the defect was discovered. At the close of the evidence, the Judge directed a verdict for the notes, less the price of the defective parts, and there being no evidence of the price of the' defective parts, the jury found for the plaintiff the whole sum sued for. There are seventeen exceptions, but the appellant says he will argue only three or four questions.
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III.The third question is as to the effect of the ten days’ notice. That is binding on the appellant, as we have seen. The Courts cannot make contracts for people. The appellant expressly agreed to the ten days for trial and notice, and is bound by it.
“Failure to make such trial, or to give such notice, or use after ten days without such notice, or use for any ten days without such notice, shall be conclusive evidence of the fulfilment of the warranty if the Murray Company shall, at the request of the purchaser, render assistance of any kind in operating said machine, or any part thereof, or in remedying any defects at any time; said assistance shall in no case be deemed an acknowledgment on its part of a breach by it of this warranty, or a waiver *388 of, excuse for, any failure of the purchaser to fully keep and perform the conditions of this warranty.”
This point also must be determined against the appellant.
The judgment is affirmed.
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- 1. Sales—Parties Bound By Time Limit For Notice op Defects Under Warranty.—Where warranty of cotton gin required notice as to defective parts within 10 days from beginning of operation, the. buyer could not avail himself of the warranty where he failed to give notice within such time. 2. Sales—Express Warranty Limits Warranty to That Expressed.— An express warranty excludes an ‘implied warranty. 3. Sales—Notice op Defects Under Warranty Held Not Waived.—. Under a warranty of cotton gin requiring notice as to defective parts to be given within 10 days, that seller sent a man to inspect the gin, and to fix it after the 10 days had expired, held, under the terms of the contract, not a waiver of notice within that time.