Court Opinion

ID: 9576740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:27:56.764374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:14:23.557576
License: Public Domain

Olson, J.
(dissenting)—As the majority state (and so does plaintiff in its brief), the parties agreed that the machine would be shipped to plaintiff’s plant for inspection. After inspection, plaintiff did not reject the machine, but agreed that certain parts of it be reconditioned by defendants at their expense. After this work was done by defendants at considerable cost, and while the parts were in transit on their return to plaintiff, it notified defendants by letter that it had rescinded the contract. The ground of rescission given in this letter, quoted by the majority, was the late delivery of the machine, and not its defective condition. The ground relied upon in the letter properly was held to be insufficient by the trial court. It rested its decision upon the deficient condition of the machine delivered.
But there was no delivery of the machine by defendants. The delivery made was conditional, being only for the inspection of the machine by plaintiff, by the agreement of the parties. Neither of them intended that title to the machine should pass to plaintiff upon that delivery. Defendants had not breached their contract, but were putting the machine in deliverable condition, with plaintiff’s consent, when plaintiff gave notice of rescission. There being no grounds for the rescission at the time it was done, it was premature. 1
The judgment should be reversed.
Hill and Donworth, JJ., concur with Olson, J.