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120 Miss. 850

Sharp v. Brookhaven Pressed Brick Co.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1919

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1919-10-15

Hok. D. M. Miller, Judge. ' Suit by J. P. Sharp, against the Brookhaven Pressed Brick and Manufacturing Company. Prom a judgment for the defendant, the plaintiff appeals. Held: that if a horse is warranted sound, and yet has some visible, palpable defect, which can readily be discovered by a prudent vigilance and attention, the buyer cannot ground' an action upon the warranty on account of such defect .• . .

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1948

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relies on Mobile Auto Co. v. Sturges · Hall Commission Co. v. Crook · D. Rosenbaum's Sons v. Davis & Andrews Co.

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Decided 1919-10-15

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Smith, C. J...

¶1delivered tfre opinion of the court.

¶2The appellee is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of brick at Brookhaven, Miss., from which the appellant ordered by mail several carloads of brick to be delivered at Shaw, Miss. As each car of brick was shipped to the appellant, a draft for the price thereof was drawn on him by the appellee to which the bill of lading was attached and forwarded to the Bank of Shaw, which draft the appellee was compelled to pay before receiving the-bill of lading and the brick represented thereby. Claiming that the brick delivered to him were inferior in quality to those ordered, the appellant instituted this suit against the appellee for the recovery of the difference between the value of the brick ordered and those received.

¶3The evidence introduced by the appellant on -the trial in the court below supports the allegations of his declaration, but on motion of the appellee it was excluded by the court, and the jury instructed to find for the appellee, and there was a verdict and judgment accordingly.

¶4The contention of the appellee in support of this ruling of the courts is that its implied warranty of the quality of the brick did not survive the acceptance *861thereof by the appellant, hut that the law is to the contrary will appear from Hall Commission Co. v. Crook, 87 Miss. 445, 40 So. 20, 1006; Mobile Auto Co. v. Sturges, 107 Miss. 848, 66 So. 205; Rosenbaum’s Sons v. Davis & Andrews Co., 111 Miss. 278, 71 So. 388; National Cash Register Co. v. Hude, 119 Miss. 36, 80 So. 378.

¶5Reversed and remanded.

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