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48 Mich. 193

Whaley v. Gale

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 19, 1882

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1882-04-19

Assumpsit upon an agreement whereby plaintiff was to furnish a quantity of railroad ties, mark them and deliver them at certain points, and defendant was to give up a certain promissory note given by plaintiff to one Atherton and assigned by him to defendant for collection. Plaintiff brings error.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1911

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Eeversed · Decided 1882-04-19

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Marston, J.

¶1This cause was commenced and tried in justice’s court where the plaintiff recovered a judgment. On certiorari to the circuit the judgment of the justice was reversed. The case comes here on writ of error.

¶2"We have examined the errors alleged in the affidavit for the writ of certiorari. The objections made to the admission of certain testimony were not well taken. In order to reverse the judgment of a justice rendered upon the merits, for the rejection or admission of evidence, it should appear clearly that the party against whom the judgment was rendered was injured by the ruling.

¶3The evidence offered and admitted on the part of the plaintiff tended to prove a valid binding agreement; the delivery of railroad ties at a place agreed upon and marking them as the defendant had directed. This was denied by the defendant. If the plaintiff’s testimony and that of his witnesses was true, there was a delivery, and thus the case was taken out of the operation of the statute of frauds, and whether true or not was a question for the justice.

¶4The judgment of the circuit court must be reversed and that of the justice affirmed with costs.

The other Justices concurred.
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