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108 Ark. 322

Crouch & Son v. Leake

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided May 19, 1913

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1913-05-19

Hays, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This suit was brought by appellants against T. B. Leake and others to recover a balance of $614.95, claimed to be due on a note for $1,000, executed to them May 29, 1907. The note was signed by the defendants and credited with six different amounts paid thereon from May 29, 1907, to March 15,' 1910, Aggregating $534.93.

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The written contract expressed the terms of the warranty and provided the remedy that should accrue from a breach of it which was exclusive of any other mode of compensation and afforded the only relief to which they were entitled.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Arkansas Power & Light Co. v. Stuck

Relies on Wilson v. Nichols & Shepherd Co. · Highsmith v. Hammonds

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

reversed · Decided 1913-05-19

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1933

3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Kirby, J.,

¶1(after stating the facts). Appellants contend that the court erred in not directing a verdict in their favor and are right in so doing.

¶2The undisputed testimony shows that the stallion was not “a satisfactory sure breeder” as warranted, but it also shows that appellees gave no notice to appellants of a breach of the warranty nor did they return or offer to return the horse to the seller and receive another of equal value in his place by August 1, 1908, as they were required to do by the terms of the contract or at all. Neither was there any testimony tending to show a waiver by appellants of this condition. The written contract expressed the terms of the warranty and provided the remedy that should accrue from a breach of it which was exclusive of any other mode of compensation and afforded the only relief to which they were entitled. Not having complied with the said condition on their part, nor shown a waiver thereof on the part of appellants, they will be held to have accepted the stallion as in all respects complying with the warranty and bound to the-payment of the balance due on the note for the purchase money. Highsmith v. Hammonds, 99 Ark. 400. See also Walters v. Akers, 101 S. W. (Ky.), 1179; Wisdom v. Nichols & Shepherd Co., 97 S. W. 18.

¶3The court erred in not directing a verdict for appellants and its judgment is reversed and judgment will be entered here for them in the sum sued for. It is so ordered.

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