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69 Vt. 563

Burditt Bros. v. Howe

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided May 15, 1897

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1897-05-15

Trover for forty barrels of flour. Plea, the general issue. Heard on the report of a referee and the defendant’s exceptions thereto at the March Term, 1897, Rutland County, Tyler, J., presiding. The following is a summary of the report. The plaintiffs are dealers in flour at Rutland.

Relies on Winn v. Chamberlin · Tilden v. Minor, Smith & Moriarty · Reynolds v. Hassam

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Pro forma judgment sustaining the exceptions and that… · Decided 1897-05-15

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Taft, J.

¶1It is argued by defendant’s counsel that the parol testimony covered by the exceptions to the report was not admissible for that “the correspondence of Bigelow (the plaintiffs agent) and Moore constitute a complete contract in writing.”

¶2It is evident that a part of the contract rested in parol, viz: that a bill of lading was to accompany the draft and that the title to the flour was not to pass until the draft was paid. This made the parol testimony admissible and' the exceptions to the report are overruled. Winn v, Chamberlin, 32 Vt. 320; Reynolds v. Hassam, 56 Vt. 449, That the title would not pass, was the legal effect of the draft and bill of lading. Tilden v. Minor, 45 Vt. 196. The *565title of the flour not having passed to Moore it cannot be held on the attachment against him and the plaintiffs are entitled to recover. The question of stoppage in transitu becomes immaterial.

¶3The pro forma judgment reversed, the defendant's exceptions to the report overruled, and judgment renderedfor theplaintiffs.

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