Case Name: Brown vs Mattingly
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1843-05-29
Citations: 3 B. Mon 592
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brown vs Mattingly.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 592–594

Head Matter:
Brown vs Mattingly.
Error to the Nelson Circuit.
Appeal.
Case 153.
May 29.
May 30.
B. cp A. Monroe for plaintiff: Hardin for defendant.
Construction of contracts.
A contracttopay $50 for the colts of five mares to be put to a Jack, colts or no colts, is not payable ■until the usual time of weaning colts, unless there he an express agreement to the contrary.

Opinion:
Judge Marshall
delivered, the opinion, of the Court
It seems to this Court, that the Circuit Court erred in instructing the jury for the plaintiff, that upon their finding the facts assumed in the instruction, the plaintiff had a right to the fifty dollars, as soon as the mares were tried, unless he had committed a fraud: Referring, as we should do, the terms of the contract as proved, to the printed offer of the defendant in regard to the purchase of mule colts, (and perhaps even without that reference.) we think the clear implication is that the $50 was to be paid at the time at which the colts, if any, would, according to the ordinary course of treatment, be weaned. On the ground of this error, as well as of surprise, as made out by the affidavit filed, a new trial should have been granted.
Wherefore, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.