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121 Mass. 513

Robinson v. Talbot

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 22, 1877

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1877-01-22

Contract on an account annexed for the price of 59 barrels of glue sold by the plaintiffs to the defendant. Writ dated December 4, 1874. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., without a jury, it appeared that the plaintiffs were commission merchants, and that one Barney, a manufacturer of glue, consigned the glue to the plaintiffs for sale.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1904

1 state decisions

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Decided 1877-01-22

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DEVENS, J.

¶1When the goods, which the plaintiffs had sold, were found not to correspond with the warranty, it was the right of the defendant to rescind the contract, and the plaintiffs had no controlling right, under such circumstances, to insist upon its performance. If the plaintiffs had made advances distinctly upon these goods, and were thus entitled to a lien upon them, they cannot maintain this action, which is for the price of goods sold, by a sale which could properly be rescinded, and which, by consent of the consignor, was rescinded by the defendant. If the transaction between the defendant and the consignor operated to deprive the plaintiffs of their lien, by reason of the transfer of the possession of the goods to the consigner, instead of to themselves, they cannot for that reason treat the sale as completed, and sue for the price. If entitled to any remedy, it must be sought in some other form of action.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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