Vaughan's Seed Store v. Stringfellow’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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1. ““The defendant’s engagement was that the seed sold was the Arlington White Spine cucumber seed and Would produce Arlington Whtie Spine cucumbers. The natural consequence of a breach of such a warranty would be a crop of cucumbers different in kind and quality from that guar anteed by the defendant. Where, then, the seed produces a crop not harmful to the land, but of a poorer character, or of an inferior quality, and less value then would have been produced had the warranty been fulfilled, the measure of damage is the value of the crop of the true product, such as the seed was warranted to produce, and such as would ordinarily have been produced that year, less the expense of raising it, and less also the value of the crop actually raised from the seed sold; or, in other words, the measure of damage would be the difference between the market value of the crop raised and the crop from the seed ordered. 30 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (2d Ed.) 219; Wolcott v. Mount, 36 N. J. Law, 262, 13 Am. Rep. 438 ; White v. Miller, 71 N. Y. 118 , 27 Am. Rep. 13 ; Passinger v. Thorburn, 34 N. Y. 634 , 90 Am. Dec. 753 ; Depew v. Peck Hardware Co., 121 App. Div. 28 , 105 N. Y. Supp. 390 .” 48 South. Rep. text 414.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. West Coast Lumber Co. v. Wernicke · 64 So. 2d 162 - Corneli Seed Co. v. Ferguson