Case ID: neb_34/html/0459-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Maxwell, Ch. J. Norval, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Nichols, Shepard & Co. v. J. L. Miller et al.
    [Filed April 13, 1892.]
    Sale : Warranty: Action on Note. In an action upon certain notes given for a threshing machine and engine, the defendant admitted the execution of the notes but pleaded a breach of . warranty and damages; that the machine had been taken by ihe plaintiff under a chattel mortgage and sold. The testimony tended to show that the machine was defective and that the plaintiff had failed to make it work properly after notice of the defects, and that the purchaser had acted in good faith and had paid $156 on the machine. Held, That a verdict for $200 in favor of the purchaser would not be set aside.
    Error to the district court for York county. Tried below before Noryal, J.
    
      George B. France, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Sedgwick & Poioer, contra.
    
   Maxwell, Ch. J.

This action was brought in the district court of York ■county by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover upon four promissory notes each for the sum of $175. The notes were dated July 29, 1885. They were given for a threshing machine and engine, the whole price of which was $1,050; upon which the defendant, on the 2d day of September, 1886, paid the sum of $156. The defendants in their answer admit the making and delivery uf the notes, but allege a breach of*warranty and claim damages in the sum of $550. On the trial of the cause the jury returned a verdict for $200 in favor of the defendants, upon which judgment was rendered. The testimony shows that the separator had been used before the defendants obtained it, but had been repainted; that it had been exposed to the weather and greatly injured. It also appears that it did not do good work; that the engine was not sufficient to perform the service required of it. It also appears that the machinery was mortgaged to the company and afterwards taken by it and sold under the mortgage. So far as we can see the purchasers acted in good faith, and the defects complained of, or many of theni, were actual defects in the machinery which the company failed to remedy. It would serve no good purpose, to review the testimony at length. No error appears in the record and the judgment is

Affirmed.

Post, J., concurs.

Norval, J.,

having tried the case in the district court, did- not offer an opinion.