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48 Me. 211

Goddard v. Demerritt

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1859

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1859-07-01

On Report. Assumpsit to recover the price of a lot of lumber alleged to have been sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendants.

Decided 1859-07-01

¶1The opinion of the Court was announced by

Goodenow, J.

¶2The defendants cannot succeed in their defence by force of the statute of frauds. The evidence, without the deposition of Dodge, is sufficient to prove that the *212lumber sued for, with the exception of the 16,600 clapboards, was put on board the Batavia, for and on account of the defendants.

¶3For this the plaintiff is entitled to recover according to the p/rices agreed upon; and, for the clapboards saved, so much in addition, as they were worth after the wreck, in the hands of the defendants, deducting salvage and all expenses.

¶4Defendants defaulted; — .damages to be assessed by the Judge at Nisi Prius.

Tenney, O. J., Rice, Appleton, Davis and Kent, JJ., concurred.
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