Standard Oil Co. v. Paragon Oil Co.
Standard Oil Co. v. Paragon Oil Co.
Opinion of the Court
This is an action to recover the alleged balance due upon an account. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendant for costs. The plaintiff has appealed.
After all the evidence had been submitted, the appellant moved for a directed verdict, and assigns error because of the refusal of the court to grant the motion.
“In consideration of this, when the samples and prices come back, provided they are agreeable and satisfactory, we will expect you to sign a contract, and in the meantime if you want any goods you can order them right along as you want, and we will send them along. He said, we will invoice them at the old prices, and that after the contract is signed up then we will send you a credit memo., for the difference, and I accepted the goods and invoices on that basis. I think that is about all there was of that interview at that time.”
The judgment is reversed, with directions to enter a judgment for the appellant for the amount of its claim.
Cuow, C. J., Mouuis, and Chadwick, JJ., concur.
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- Sales — Construction and Liability —■ Conditions — Evidence— Sufficiency. The evidence is insufficient to establish a contract for the sale of gasoline, pearl-oil, naphtha and distillate, at a certain per cent below the market value, as claimed by defendant in an action for a balance due, where it appears from the evidence of the defendant’s manager that plaintiff’s offer of the discounts was made in consideration of the defendant’s giving them also their lubricating business; that an offer of a discount for lubricating oils was held under consideration until samples could be given and prices agreed upon, that the parties agreed to sign a contract if the samples were satisfactory, and that in the meantime, the gasoline, etc., was to be invoiced at the old prices and a credit memo, for the difference given if the contract was signed, that defendant placed orders for the gasoline, etc., with that understanding, and that the parties later failed to agree upon the quality and prices for the lubricating oils, and no contract therefor was ever signed; since it is plain that the agreed discount was not to be given unless the contract for lubricating oils was entered into, failing which the billed goods were to be paid for at the higher rate.