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7 Me. 150

Dennett v. Short

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided June 15, 1830

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1830-06-15

This was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note, in ' which the defendant engaged to pay the plaintiff “ one hundred dollars in pump and block work, at the customary prices, in three months, with thirty days’ notice when then the work is called for.” The defendant, who was a pump and block maker, being duly called upon for payment of the note at his shop, offered to the plaintiff a quantity of work which he had previously separated and laid aside for that purpose,…

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Decided 1830-06-15

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The Court said,

¶1in substance, that the contract was to be interpreted by reference to the situation of the parties, and to 'the benefits which each might reasonably be supposed to liave intended to derive from making it. Every contract in general terms for the wares of a particular trade, must be understood to relate to wares of the kind and fashion then in ordinary use 5 since no others would be serviceable to the purchaser. In the present case some of the articles .tendered were not of this character 5 but on the contrary were out of use and unsaleable j and some were only parts of the article mentioned, via. pumps 5 on both, which accounts the plaintiff was jxistified in refusing to receive them. For these reasons, although the instructions respecting the average proportion of the articles were broader than the. case required, they rendered

¶2Judgment on the verdict.

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