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132 Wis. 423

Engeldinger v. Stevens

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided June 20, 1907

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1907-06-20

Tbe defendant, a dealer in wood at Eau Claire, having learned about April 7th that tbe plaintiff, residing at Durand, had maple wood for sale, and that his price was “$5.25 per cord, f. o. b. Durand, Wisconsin, cash with order,” and having at intervals of a few days ordered and received two carloads of such wood, the last shipped about April 22d and preceded by letter of April 21st from plaintiff, explaining that his shipments were dependent upon ability to get cars, and…

Relies on Washburn v. Fletcher · Murphy v. Sagola Lumber Co. · Fountain City Drill Co. v. Peterson

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Affirmed · Decided 1907-06-20

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1922

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Dodge, J.

¶1Tbe delivery of merchandise in tbe manner and at tbe place specified in a written order constitutes an executed sale and warrants recovery of tbe price. Murphy v. Sagola L. Co. 125 Wis. 363, 103 N. W. 113; Fountain City D. Co. v. Peterson, 126 Wis. 512, 106 N. W. 17. Tbe findings declare such acts to have been performed by tbe plaintiff, and they are clearly supported by tbe evidence. Tbe right of tbe plaintiff to recover is therefore clear, unless cancellation of tbe order bad been communicated to him, or some one authorized to receive it on bis behalf, before such delivery. Washburn v. Fletcher, 42 Wis. 152; L. J. Mueller F. Co. v. Meiklejohn, 121 Wis. 605, 99 N. W. 332. Tbe trial court *425finds that the defendant’s attempted cancellation did not reach plaintiff until the day after the completed delivery f. o. b. Durand, and we are unable to discover that the evidence clearly, if at all, preponderates against such finding. Hence the right of recovery is established.

¶2Error is assigned upon the rejection of certain evidence: First, what is characterized as evidence to show a custom among fuel dealers of buying light at the season of the year involved; also some other facts bearing perhaps upon the interest of the defendant in prompt shipment. Since there was no ambiguity in the order, nor in the act of the plaintiff in filling it, such evidence could have no materiality.

¶3We find no other question in the record needing consideration and no error.affecting the correctness of the judgment.

¶4By the Gouri. — Judgment affirmed.

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