Rogers v. Rehard
Citation | 97 S.W. 951,122 Mo. App. 44 |
Parties | ROGERS et al. v. REHARD et al. |
Decision Date | 19 November 1906 |
Court | Court of Appeal of Missouri (US) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Clay County; J. W. Alexander, Judge.
Action by Newton M. Rogers and another against A. L. Rehard and another. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Reversed.
John A. Cross and Sandusky & Sandusky, for appellants. W. S. Herdon, for respondents.
The plaintiffs' suit is to recover from the defendants the amount alleged to have been overpaid by them to defendant on the purchase price of a certain telephone plant. The contract of sale was evidenced by the following written contract: The three persons named, whose duty it was to select the two telephone men to make the invoice and fix values, selected Pascal Parker and James M. Deacy, who made their inventory and fixed the values on the property, and the respondents paid the full amount of the purchase price for all said property. But they claim that said Parker and Deacy made a mistake in their invoice of the amount of wire owned by defendants in said telephone exchange, and erroneously included in the said inventory by them 3,200 pounds of No. 12 wire, of the value of 5 cents per pound, aggregating the sum of $160, and 13,000 pounds of No. 14 wire, of the value of 5¼ cents per pound, amounting to the sum $692.50, and which values were carried into and constituted a part of the footings of the total amount of said inventory, and so paid by plaintiffs; "that as a matter of fact * * * the amount stated in said inventory was more than twice the amount of wire contained and owned * * * by defendant in said Clover Leaf Exchange and delivered by defendants to plaintiff." It is for this difference plaintiffs' claim is...
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