Conley v. Sims
Decision Date | 09 February 1884 |
Citation | 71 Ga. 161 |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Parties | CONLEY v. SIMS & BLALOCK. |
September Term, 1883.
Where a vendor of fertilizers had three different kinds thereof in a warehouse, two of which had been inspected and the third had not been inspected, branded or tagged, and where bags of these three kinds were cut in the house, and after all the sound bags which had tags upon them were sold and delivered this refuse mixture was gathered up and bagged, and tags were procured from persons other than the inspector and attached to the bags, and the mixture was thus sold, it was an illegal sale and void, and could not furnish the basis of a recovery even in the hands of a bona fide purchaser without notice.
Fertilizers. Contracts. Fraud. Before Judge CLARK. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1883.
Reported in the decision.
A. A MANNING, for plaintiff in error.
R. J JORDAN, for defendants.
It is quite clear that the verdict and judgment in the case are contrary to law and must be set aside, and a new trial granted. The suit is for the recovery of a note given for fertilizers containing this clause:
The defendant pleaded that the fertilizer sold him had not been inspected, branded and tagged, as required by law, and the admission in the contract was procured by misrepresentation and fraud of plaintiffs, and that the fertilizer was worthless.
The proof is clear that the fertilizer delivered to defendant was never branded or tagged or inspected in any way according to law,...
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