Case Name: FENTON v. BRADEN et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1825-04
Citations: 8 F. Cas. 1140
Docket Number: Case No. 4,730
Parties: FENTON v. BRADEN et al.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 8
Pages: 1140–1141

Head Matter:
Case No. 4,730.
FENTON v. BRADEN et al.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 550.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1825.
Mr. Mason, for the plaintiff,
Mr. Taylor, for the defendants.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
was of opinion that, as the goods were at the risk of the defendants, when put on board the ship at Liverpool, and the defendants had no agent there to accept, or refuse, or even to examine the goods and compare them with the invoice prices, and the defendants had given a general order for such goods, without any express agreement as to the price, the law will only raise an implied promise to pay as much as the goods were worth at the time and place of shipment. The defendants could not refuse to receive them, and oblige the plaintiff to take them back if they were such goods as the defendants ordered; and their receiving them here is no evidence of an agreement to,pay the invoice price of them. But the receipt of the goods and of the invoice is prima facie evidence that the invoice price is the value, unless the defendants objected to that price in a reasonable time.
Verdict for the plaintiff, deducting 7% per cent, from the invoice price.