Farwell v. Solomon

Decision Date02 March 1898
Citation49 N.E. 738,170 Mass. 457
PartiesFARWELL v. SOLOMON.
CourtUnited States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court
COUNSEL

Ambrose Eastman, for plaintiff.

M.L. Sanborn, for defendant.

OPINION

ALLEN, J.

The defendant's bill of exceptions does not state in detail any facts found by the court, but only the evidence and the general finding upon the whole case. This general finding may have rested upon any view of the facts warranted by the evidence. It is obvious that the books ordered were of use only to the defendant, and it appeared that on two occasions he accepted portions of the whole number ordered to be printed, and that on the occasion of the last such acceptance, 93,000 copies more were in readiness for delivery; and the defendant testified that after this last delivery he stopped the plaintiff's intestate from printing more copies. The only exceptions taken by the defendant are to the refusal to give two rulings which were requested. The first request was properly refused, because, under the circumstances disclosed, it was not necessary to make an actual delivery or tender of the books to the defendant. Middlesex Co. v. Osgood, 4 Gray, 447; Goddard v. Binney, 115 Mass. 450; Folsom v. Cornell, 150 Mass. 115, 119, 22 N.E. 705. The second request was also rightly refused, because it rested on the assumption that a time for the completion of the books was specified in the contract; but this assumption is not borne out by the bill of exceptions. Exceptions overruled.

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  • Rosen v. Garston
    • United States
    • United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court
    • April 1, 1946
    ...for the note of May 23, 1942. G.L.(Ter.Ed.) c. 106, § 21, rule 4(1). Mitchell v. Le Clair, 165 Mass. 308, 43 N.E. 117;Farwell v. Solomon, 170 Mass. 457, 49 N.E. 738;Bristol Mfg. Corp. v. Arkwright Mills, 213 Mass. 172, 100 N.E. 55;Winslow Brothers & Smith Co. v. Universal Coat Co., 252 Mass......
  • Rosen v. Garston
    • United States
    • United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court
    • April 1, 1946
    ...collateral for the note of May 23, 1942. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 106, Section 21, Rule 4 (1). Mitchell v. LeClair, 165 Mass. 308 . Farwell v. Solomon, 170 Mass. 457 Bristol Manuf. Corp. v. Arkwright Mills, 213 Mass. 172 . Winslow Brothers & Smith Co. v. Universal Coat Co. 252 Mass. 7 . Beck & P......

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