This action was brought to recover the contract price of certain castings sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant. The complaint alleged, among other things, as follows :
“ III. That at various times between the 29 th day of March, 1902, and the sixth day of September, 1902, the plaintiff sold and delivered to the defendant two cast iron centrifugal pump castings.
“ IY. That the same were reasonably worth the sum of $2,014.20.
“ Y. That no part thereof has been paid, although payment thereof has been duly demanded by plaintiff of defendant, except the sum of $1,007.10, leaving a balance due and owing from defendant to plaintiff amounting to $1,007.10.
“ YI. That the defendant has frequently promised to pay plaintiff said balance of $1,007.10.”
The defendant by its answer did not deny these allegations of the complaint, but alleged that the castings were for the use of the government of the United States, and “ that it was understood and agreed by and between the plaintiff and defendant that before said castings were to be paid for by the defendant they were to be inspected and accepted by the Government of the United States of America, or by persons acting in behalf of said Government; ” that the government of the United States had not accepted said castings, and that the defendant had no knowledge that it would accept them, but believed by reason of certain defects therein that they might be rejected.
At the conclusion of the trial the court directed a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed in the complaint, and from the judgment entered thereon defendant has appealed. It asks for a reversal principally upon the ground that the trial court erred in rejecting evidence tending to establish the facts set out in the defendant’s answer above alluded to.
We do not think the defendant was injured by these rulings. The contract under which the castings were furnished consisted of a written proposition in the form of a letter from the plaintiff to the defendant, and an acceptance, also in the form of a letter, from the defendant to the plaintiff, in neither of which is any mention made that the payment of the castings was to depend in any way upon an
The judgment appealed from-is right and should be affirmed,, with costs.
Patterson, Ingraham and Laughlin, JJ., concurred; Yak Brunt, P. J., concurred in result.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.
