Case Name: Bass Dry Goods Co. v. Granite City Manufacturing Co.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1901-07-23
Citations: 113 Ga. 1142
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bass Dry Goods Co. v. Granite City Manufacturing Co.
Judges: All the Justices concurring.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 113
Pages: 1142–1142

Head Matter:
Bass Dry Goods Co. v. Granite City Manufacturing Co.
Argued June 23,
Decided July 23, 1901.
Action on contract. Before Judge Proffitt. City court of Elberton. November 30, 1900.
J. E. McGlelland and Rogers & Rogers, for plaintiff.
Joseph N. Worley, for defendants.

Opinion:
Simmons, C. J.
1. Where a partnership engaged in the manufacture of clothing and was closing out the business and had a lot of clothing in its warehouse,, and one of the partners, traveling as a salesman to sell the remnant of the stock, made a contract to sell a certain quantity of goods then on hand, the partnership was bound by the contract so made, although the other partners sold these goods to other purchasers before receiving the order of the first named partner, and although he sold the goods for less than their market value. Civil Code, § 2651.
2. Evidence as to conversations between the seller and buyer, prior to the making of the written contract, were inadmissible to show the terms of the contract or the understanding of the parties in reference thereto.
3. Limitations on the authority of a partner to bind the partnership can not af. feet third persons who have no notice of such limitations.
4. Where the contract is for the sale of " about " 147 dozen pairs of pants, with nothing by which the particular goods sold may be identified, the contract is-to sell the amount named with such accidental variations as may arise from slight and unimportant excesses or deficiencies. Brawley v. United States, 96 U. S. 168; 1 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 199, and notes.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concurring.