S. A. Stone Co. v. Davis Moore
S. A. Stone Co. v. Davis Moore
Opinion of the Court
(after stating the facts as above). The trial court filed the following conclusions of law, which we adopt:
“(1) I conclude that the title to said cattle passed to the plaintiffs by the written contract executed by the parties on the 30th of April, 1910, and that the condition in said contract providing for the feeding of said cattle was an independent condition.
“(2) I conclude that, under the facts and circumstances of this case, the plaintiffs were not entitled to a rescission of said contract, and that, if they suffered any injury by reason of its breach, their proper remedy would be a suit for damages.”
“The principle is sound that a continuance of the' possession of the vendor does not prevent the delivery being complete, if nothing further remains to be done on either side, and the possession is by mutual consent. There is nothing in reason or principle to make the present case different, simply because the bales of cotton remained in the plaintiff’s warehouse. It was part of the bar-gain that they should so remain, and a part of the consideration of the promise.”
In Hotchkiss v. Hunt, 49 Me. 221, it' is said:
“Where, by the terms of the agreement, or by fair implication therefrom, the article thus sold or resold is to remain in the possession of the vendor for a specific time or for a specific purpose, as a part of the consideration, and the sale is otherwise complete, the possession of the. vendor will be considered the possession of the vendee, and the delivery will be complete and sufficient.”
See, also,.Storey on Sales, § 300.
Affirmed.
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