Church Manufacturing Co. v. Joseph
Church Manufacturing Co. v. Joseph
Opinion of the Court
The purpose of this action is to recover the balance due for boiled cider, sold and delivered. The issues were made up by the complaint, the answer and cross-complaint, and reply. The cause was tried to the court without a jury, and resulted in findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgment sustaining the plaintiff’s right to recover. From this judgment, the defendant appeals.
The respondent is a corporation, organized under the laws of this state, with its principal place of business at Kennewick. The appellant is located at Aberdeen, and is engaged in selling soft drinks to the wholesale and retail trade. On July 13, 1918, the respondent and appellant entered into a written agreement whereby the respondent agreed to furnish the appellant two hundred barrels of boiled cider at seventy cents per gallon f. o. b. Kennewick. The respondent
“That the defendant never gave to the plaintiff an unconditional shipping order for the said 38 barrels. That the defendant failed to furnish empty barrels in which the said cider was to be shipped according to the terms of the agreement between the said plaintiff and defendant, and failed and refused to make payment of the purchase price of the said cider as agreed. That the plaintiff observed every item and condition of the said contract as far as it was permitted to do so by the said defendant. That the said defendant breached said contract in failing to furnish barrels according*112 to their agreement, and in failing and refusing to pay the purchase price-of the cider on or before the date agreed. That the time for making payment of said purchase price was never extended by the plaintiff, and that the defendant now owes the plaintiff on the purchase price of said goods the sum of $1,396.48, with interest from the agreed date of payment, to wit: the 1st day of December, 1918.”
This finding, in our opinion, is sustained by the evidence. The correspondence, which was largely prompted by the insistence on the part of the respondent that the appellant pay the balance due for the cider which had been'shipped, does not evidence an agreement to waive or modify the terms of the original contract.
The judgment will be affirmed.
Holcomb, 0. J., Mackintosh, Paekee, and Mitchell, JJ., concur.
Reference
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- Church Manufacturing Company v. A. Joseph
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- Published