Court Opinion

ID: 7350767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-26 02:09:40.320749+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:27.168218
License: Public Domain

BIJUR, J.
[1] This action was brought to recover the purchase price of four dresses. Defendant denied that he had ordered more than two, and gave evidence to the effect that the other two had been returned by him in conformity with a conversation which he claims to have had with plaintiff’s officer over the telephone. The evidence as to this conversation was improperly admitted over objection, as the witness did not even claim to have recognized the voice of the officer with whom he spoke. The testimony was, no doubt, under the circumstances, prejudicial to appellant, and for this error alone the judgment would have to be reversed.
[2] It is, however, evident that the plaintiff should have had judgment for at least the full price of the two dresses, although the defendant, without any justification, claimed the right to deduct a discount of 10 per cent., and alleged a tender of the reduced amount and paid it into court.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.