Baringer v. Rock County Sugar Co.
Baringer v. Rock County Sugar Co.
Opinion of the Court
If the court’s view of the facts be correct, obviously, its conclusion is unassailable. But is it correct ?
We cannot well support the finding that the contract with plaintiff was of the limited character mentioned. The agreement was made hy correspondence. When the matter was first definitely put in shape it was by a letter to plaintiff, under date of July 30, 1906, containing terms as stated -in the court’s findings. Plaintiff replied August 2d thereafter practically accepting defendant’s proposition but calling for some explanations. Defendant replied under date of August 14, 1906, confirming the previous proposition but without
Thus the contract between appellant* and respondent was this, clearly: Respondent offered appellant the right to sell its product at a price to net to the factory $13.80 per ton Janes-ville, less seventy-five cents per ton allowed for commission, reserving the privilege of supplying its Western market; but appellant to go ahead and sell all the pulp he could and mail the orders direct to Janesville, the same to be filled as soon as the factory started up, and to confirm orders until instructed to the contrary. If the court below had found the contract to be as suggested, judgment, as matter of course, would have been awarded plaintiff for the commission on the amount of pulp not delivered and the amount appellant was obliged to pay to secure cancellation of orders with interest as prayed for in the complaint.
The error below, it seems, occurred by taking respondent’s letter of July 30, 1906, as showing what' the contract was in
By the Court.- — The judgment is reversed, and the-cause is remanded for judgment in favor of plaintiff for the amount due him according to the findings on the basis indicated in the opinion less- $57.75 unpaid on the piilp, the balance being $1,894.75 with interest from the 13th day of November, 1906.
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