Case Name: Hancock Knitting Mills, Plaintiff, v. Michael Weinreich, Defendant
Court: New York City Municipal Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1933-03-15
Citations: 147 Misc. 235
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hancock Knitting Mills, Plaintiff, v. Michael Weinreich, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 235–236

Head Matter:
Hancock Knitting Mills, Plaintiff, v. Michael Weinreich, Defendant.
Municipal Court of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Ninth District,
March 15, 1933.
Black, Varian & Simon [Louis X. Alter of counsel], for the plaintiff.
Harry Grayer, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Lauer, P. J.
This is a submission under an agreed statement of facts. Under the stipulated facts it seems to me that the plaintiff cannot succeed because there was no compliance with the Statute of Frauds (Pers. Prop. Law, § 85). It is argued by the plaintiff that delivery to the carrier was delivery to the defendant. This may be so under the authorities, but the defendant pleads the Statute of Frauds, and under that statute if the value of the goods exceeds fifty dollars the contract of sale is unenforcible " unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods and actually receive the same." Assuming that the delivery to the carrier was equivalent to an actual receipt by the buyer, there has been no acceptance of the goods, and unless there is acceptance and receipt the statute is not complied with.
Accordingly, I must give judgment for the defendant.