Court Opinion

ID: 4723622
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 02:42:56.008487+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:44.135734
License: Public Domain

*490The opinion of the court was delivered by
Scott, C. J.
This is the second appeal in this action. The decision upon the former appeal will be found in 13 Wash. 671 (43 Pac. 943), where a judgment in favor of the defendant was reversed, and the cause was remanded for trial upon the issue as to whether a subsequent contract was entered into to deliver a quantity of the pipe at the corner of Jackson and South Second streets, and at the corner of Grant and Dearborn streets in said city, in lieu of the Spring street wharf. The second trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant also, and the plaintiff appeals. On this trial the court admitted evidence to show that the distance from the cars to the places aforesaid where the pipe was delivered was no greater than from the cars to the Spring street wharf, and evidence showing the length of some of the other hauls made under the contract, the condition of the streets as to grades, etc., and also instructed the jury in substance that if the defendant requested the plaintiff to haul said pipe to the points in question instead of to the wharf, and the plaintiff did so without objection, he thereby became bound by acquiescence to make the haul for the lesser price. These matters are all alleged as error by the plaintiff, and we think the points are well taken, for the evidence as to whether the plaintiff could afford to make the modification in question was not competent to show that he did make it, nor was the fact of his hauling to said points under the direction of defendant's agents relevant or competent to show the modification of the contract, for, under that contract, he was bound to haul it there if directed to do so.
We think this covers substantially all the questions raised upon this appeal.
*491Reversed and remanded for a new trial.
Reavis, Dunbar, and Gordon, JJ., concur.