Proud
Proud v. Strain
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Taggart, J.
Action for goods sold and delivered. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals from the order of the trial court denying his motion for a new trial.
From the bill of exceptions in the record it appears that plaintiff went to trial on a complaint which alleged the sale and delivery by plaintiff to defendant, at the latter’s request, between March 22, and May 11, 1906, of a certain quantity of cabbage at an agreed price, the payment of a part of said price and the nonpayment of a balance of $667.09; the same matter was stated as a second cause of action for the same sum upon a quantum valebat count. The complaint also alleged seven other causes of action, doubly stated in the same manner, based upon sales of cabbage made to defendant by seven different persons who had assigned their respective claims therefor to plaintiff. All of said sales took place between March 19 and June 27, 1906. The aggregate of unpaid balances in the several causes of action being stated at $2,141.41, for which a judgment was asked. Defendant answered, denying that any sales of cabbage had been made to him by plaintiff or any of his assignors, and alleged that all the cabbage mentioned in the several…