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141 Mass. 364

Weil v. Golden

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1886-03-31

Contract to recover the amount of a draft drawn by the plaintiff, doing business as Leon Weil and Company at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1879, at four months, upon the defendant, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and there accepted by him.

Relies on Suit v. Woodhall

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Decided 1886-03-31

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Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1939

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions

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W. Allen, J.

¶1This ease was confused at the trial and at the argument by surmises as to what might have been the effect had the sale been made in Philadelphia. There was no evidence of a sale there. The place of sale was where the sale was completed by delivery. Both of the witnesses testified that the goods were to be délivered, and were delivered, in Pawtucket; and also — what is of consequence only as bearing on the question of the place of delivery — that the plaintiff was to pay, and did pay, the freight to Pawtucket. The testimony, if believed, proved a sale made in Rhode Island, illegal and void by its laws; and the instruction that, if the sale was made in Pawtucket, and was made for the purpose of enabling the defendant to violate the laws of Rhode Island, the action could not be sustained, was all that was required. The evidence objected to was clearly competent to show the purpose. The plaintiff had no cause of complaint on account of the refusal to give instructions asked, or of the instructions given. Suit v. Woodhall, 113 Mass. 391.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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