Court Opinion

ID: 9831462
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:07:38.124328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:35.014806
License: Public Domain

JENKINS, J.
Appellant sued appellees for the proceeds of a car of potatoes, shipped by appellant to appellees to be sold on commission. Appellees admitted in their answer that they had received the potatoes, as the agents of appellant, to be sold on commission, and that they had sold the same for the sum of $409.51, that they had paid freight on said potatoes to the amount of $223.50, and were entitled for their services as brokers to. the sum of $40.95, leaving a net balance, the proceeds of said potatoes, of $145.06; and the undisputed evidence in this case shows such to be the fact. They further alleged that appellant was indebted to them in the sum of $455, by reason of its failure to deliver five cars of potatoes upon a previous contract at an agreed price, by reason of which they were damaged in said sum of $455, and pleaded this as an offset against the sum of $145.06 admitted to be owing on the potatoes which they had sold for appellant as above stated, and sought to apply this amount of their damages to the amount owing on the potatoes herein sued for, and asked for judgment over for the balance of $309.95.
 Appellant excepted to this answer upon the ground that it was an attempt to plead an action in tort against an action upon contract. The court sustained this exception, but rendered judgment for appellees, and that appellant take nothing by its suit
There was no error in sustaining appellant’s exception to appellees’ answer; but, under the undisputed facts in this case, appellant was entitled to judgment in the sum of $145.06, with 6 per cent, interest from January 1, 1910, and the judgment of the trial court is here reversed and rendered for appellant for said amount
Reversed and rendered.