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Norrington Vs. Wright

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Oct 26, 1885

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  1. Lowber Vs. Bangs US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1864
  2. U.S. 188 (1885) U.S. Supreme Court Norrington v. Wright
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  3. U.S. 188 (1885) Norrington v. Wright
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  4. precedent upon the failure or nonperformance of which the party aggrieved may repudiate the whole contract. Behn v. Burness
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  5. Bowes v. Shand
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  6. Davison v. Von
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  7. into as many contracts as there shall be shipments or deliveries of so many distinct quantities of iron. Mersey Co. v. Naylor
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  8. Brawley v. United
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  9. was placed on that omission in the correspondence between the parties. The case wholly differs from that of Lyon v. Bertram
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  10. to, they do not appear to us to establish any rule inconsistent with our conclusion. In the leading case of Hoare v. Rennie
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  11. H. & N. 28. So in Coddington v. Paleologo
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  12. and the seller made no delivery on that day, the buyer might rescind the contract. On the other hand, in Simpson v. Crippin
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  13. contract and decline to deliver any more coal, but that his only remedy was by an action for damages. And in Brandt v. Lawrence
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  14. to accept them. Such being the condition of the law of England as declared in the lower courts, the case of Bowes v. Shand
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  15. Soon after that decision of the House of Lords, two cases were determined in the Court of Appeal. In Reuter v. Sala
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  16. tons in December, and it was held that the buyer had the right to refuse to receive any part of the pepper. In Honck v. Muller
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  17. The plaintiff in the case at bar greatly relied on the very recent decision of the House of Lords in Mersey Co. v. Naylor
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  18. the judgment of the Court of Appeal in 9 Q.B.D. 648, and following the decision of the Court of Common Pleas in Freeth v. Burr
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  19. Moreover, although in the Court of Appeal dicta were uttered tending to approve the decision in Simpson v. Crippin
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  20. and to disparage the decisions in Hoare v. Rennie
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  21. and Honck v. Muller
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  22. above cited, yet in the House of Lords, Simpson v. Cripping
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  23. had given the leading opinion in that case, as well and Lord Bramwell, who had delivered the leading opinion in Honck v. Muller
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  24. distinguished Hoare v. Rennie
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  25. App.Cas. 444, 446. Upon a review of the English decisions, the rule laid down in the earlier cases of Hoare v. Rennie
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  26. and Coddington v. Paleologo
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  27. as well as in the later cases of Reuter v. Sala
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  28. to us to be supported by a greater weight of authority than the rule stated in the intermediate cases of Simpson v. Cripping
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  29. and Brandt v. Lawrence
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  30. and to accord better with the general principles affirmed by the House of Lords in Bowes v. Shand
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  31. while it in no wise contravenes the decision of that tribunal in Mersey Co. v. Naylor
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  32. is less judicial authority upon the question. The two cases most nearly in point that have come to our notice are Hill v. Blake
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  33. N.Y. 216, which accords with Bowes v. Shand
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  34. and King Philip Mills v. Slater
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  35. R.I. 82, which approves and follows Hoare v. Rennie
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  36. U. S. 212 cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, cited at the bar, support no other conclusion. In Shinn v. Bodine
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  37. the seller had no right to rescind the contract upon a refusal to pay for one cargo before that time. In Morgan v. McKee
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  38. Penn.St. 228, and in Scott v. Kittanning
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  39. used a previous installment of the goods. The decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Winchester v. Newton
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  40. Allen 492, resembles that of the House of Lords in Mersey Co. v. Naylor
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  41. once designating the names of vessels, as the contract bound him to do, could not substitute other vessels. See Busk v. Spence
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  42. Graves v. Legg
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  43. Reuter v. Sala
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  44. U.S. Supreme Court Norrington v. Wright
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  45. Behn v. Burness
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  46. Mersey Co. v. Naylor
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  47. of Lyon v. Bertram
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  48. of Hoare v. Rennie
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  49. Coddington v. Paleologo
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  50. Simpson v. Crippin
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