Baker v. Robbins
Baker v. Robbins
Opinion of the Court
— This action was instituted to recover the purchase price of a horse, after a rescission of the contract of sale for breach of warranty. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the defendants have appealed.
But two errors are assigned; viz., error in overruling a motion for nonsuit, and error in overruling a motion for new trial. Under these assignments the appellants contend: (1)
We also agree with the trial court that the question of the sufficiency of the tender and the question of waiver were for the jury. While the tender testified to by the respondent was somewhat informal, yet we think the jury might well conclude that a further or more formal tender would be vain and useless in view of the acts and conduct of the appellants.
The claim of w'aiver ivas based upon the fact that the respondent and his Avife had used the horse after the attempted rescission of the contract of sale. There was testimony tending to show that such use was not as OAvner, but merely to give the horse necessary exercise and keep him in proper condition, and such use would not, as a matter of laAV, constitute a Avaiver of the right to rescind. All questions of fact in the
The judgment is therefore affirmed.
Fullerton, Crow, and Mount, JJ., concur.
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- Lizzie C. Baker v. Herbert E. Robbins
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- Sales — Rescission by Vendee — Breach of Warranty. The rule that an executed contract of sale cannot be rescinded for breach of warranty does not obtain where the warranty was fraudulently and deceitfully made. Appeal — Preservation of Grounds — Objections Below. The objection that there can be no rescission of a contract for breach of warranty cannot be raised for the first time in the supreme court, nor where an instruction to that effect was not excepted to in the court below. Tender — Evidence — Question for Jury. The sufficiency of a tender is for the jury, where there was evidence of an informal tender from which the jury might well conclude that a more formal tender would be vain and useless. Sales — Rescission by Vendee — Fraud—Waiver. The purchaser of a horse does not waive his right to rescind the sale for fraud by use of the horse after attempted rescission, where such use was merely to give necessary exercise and keep the horse in condition.