Case ID: us-ct-cl_43/html/0585-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Day", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. P. ANDREWS & COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [41 C. Cls. R., 48; 207 U. S. R., 229.]
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    A contract for paper to be furnished to the Philippine Public Pointing Office at Manila provides that the paper be inspected by the Insular Division in Washington before shipment, the paper to be o. 6. Manila at the price at which the same is now furnished to the Government Printing Office, .Washington, D. O., plus freight from Neio York ” to Manila, “ payment to he made from Philippine funds on invoice verificar tion at Manila." A quantity of paper is ordered and inspected in Washington and delivered, pursuant to the order, on board a designated transport. The claimant pays the freight to Manila. The paper is badly damaged by water on the voyage. A board of survey on arrival condemns the paper, and it is sold by the Philippine Commission.
    The court below decides:
    I. The general rule is that title passes on delivery of the goods to the vendee, if nothing more remains to be done by the vendor.
    II. Where the vendor, pursuant to the terms of the contract and to the vendee’s orders, delivered goods on a designated vessel and prepaid the freight, and nothing more remained to be done by him, the title passed, and the goods on the voyage were at the risk of the vendee.
    The decision of the court below is affirmed upon the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Day

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court December 2, 1907.