Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0376-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SULLIVAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 372
    LEES-BRADNER v. HOFFMAN CASTING CO.
    Ohio Court of Appeals, Cuyahoga County
    No. 4322.
    April 9, 1923
    This opinion has not been published except in Abs-tract
    SALES — (1) Burden, of proof is on buyer to show that the goods delivered do not conform to the contract — (2) Insufficient evidence to establish non-compliance.
    Error to Cleveland Municipal Court
    Judgment Reversed
    Attorneys — M. B. & H. H. Johnson, for Lee& Bradner Co.; Townes & Portman, Contra. j
   SULLIVAN, J.

Epitomized Opinion

This was an action for damages for breach ol contract; The Hoffman Bronze & Alumnium Casting Co. agreed to furnish the defendant certain meta’ castings composed of virgin metal. This virgir metal was to correspond, as per the terms of th< contract, to certain standards of analyses. The cast was tried before Judge Beebe of the Municipal Cour and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $1141.24 The defendant prosecuted error to the Court o; Appeals upon the ground that there was insuffieien evidence to show that the metal used was virgii metal. In reversing the lower court the Court p: Appeals held:

1. The burden of proof was upon the plaintjf to show by preponderance of evidence that virgii metal was not used in the manufacture of tH< castings. s

2. As the proof was insufficient to show that thi metal used was not virgin metal, the judgment ó: the lower court must be reversed, as the only wit ness testifying as to the nature of the metal usf< showed manifestly and grossly inadequate knowledd'i on this subject. 1