J.I. Case Threshing Mach. Co. v. Badger
Decision Date | 03 June 1914 |
Docket Number | No. 8207.,8207. |
Citation | 56 Ind.App. 399,105 N.E. 576 |
Parties | J. I. CASE THRESHING MACH. CO. v. BADGER et al. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Perry County; William Ridley, Judge.
Action by William C. Badger and others against the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, to recover damages for breach of warranty in the sale of certain threshing machinery. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. Reversed and remanded, with directions.
Wm. M. Waldschmidt, of Cannelton, and Norman E. Patrick, of Indianapolis, for appellant. Ewing, Roose & Paris, of New Albany, and Dennis F. Seacat, of Evansville, for appellees.
The record in this case discloses that in June, 1906, appellant sold and delivered to appellees a threshing machine outfit, taking in settlement certain promissory notes secured by chattel mortgage on the property sold. The machinery was sold under the following written warranty:
Appellees brought this action October 25, 1909, to recover damages for a breach of the warranty heretofore set out, and appellant filed several paragraphs of answer, among which are certain paragraphs of counterclaim by which appellant seeks to recover a balance due on the purchase price of the machinery and to foreclose two chattel mortgages, one of which was executed by all of appellees to secure the original purchase price and the other of which was executed by all of the appellees except Harper on September 24, 1908, and which was given as additional security and to obtain an extension of time. The latter mortgage covered a sawmill and some horses owned by the mortgagors, and not covered by the original mortgage. Other pleadings were filed, but as the questions presented depend upon the issues tendered by the complaint and the counterclaim, we will not extend this opinion by a further reference to the pleadings. The issues formed upon the complaint were submitted to a jury for trial, and the court determined the issues presented by the counterclaim. The court found in favor of appellant on the counterclaim that there was due it on the notes sued on the sum of $1,601.10, and the jury returned a verdict in favor of appellees on the complaint, and assessed their damages for the breach of the warranty at...
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...the requirement that, before the present action could be maintained, the machinery must be returned. (55 C. J. 814, sec. 795; J. I. Case T. M. Co. v. Badger, supra.) Since the contract gave appellant an opportunity to any defect in the machinery, and required it to be returned to the seller......
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