Case Name: CANFIELD & AL. vs. NOTROBE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1820-01
Citations: 7 Mart. (o.s.) 317
Docket Number: 
Parties: CANFIELD & AL. vs. NOTROBE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 7
Pages: 317–318

Head Matter:
CANFIELD & AL. vs. NOTROBE.
Appeal from the court of the first district.
a note, pay,. able in mer-11(>r be offered rX»Toi⅛

Opinion:
Derbigny,J.
delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant and appellant bought from the plaintiffs and appellees a quantity of goods, which were sold to him at cash prices. On the next day he tendered to them in payment, their promissory note, payable in merchandize out of their store, at fair market prices, to the order of J. Brandegee, and by him endorsed in blank.
Is this a payment of his debt in money? We think not. The contract between the parties was a sale of goods for cash, the note of the plaintiffs and appellees is an obligation to deliver merchandize.
It is by no means clear that the note could tendered in payment of ft cash debt, eve% . - 1 " . . " if ⅛ had bee%payable in merchandise at cash! price: but it is, at least very plain that it cannot, when payable in merchandise at some other than a cash price. A witness, heard in this case, says that the plaintiffs and appellees consider the difference to be equal to twenty per cent. Whether it is or not is of no consequence : any difference is enough.
Hoffman for the plaintiffs, Morse for the defendants.
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court, for the plaintiffs and appellees, be affirmed with costs.