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Meyer Vs. Richards

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 25, 1896

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  1. Groves Vs. Sentell US Supreme Court · May 14, 1894
  2. Otis Vs. Cullum US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1875
  3. Fort Scott Vs. Hickman US Supreme Court · Nov 03, 1884
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  4. U.S. 385 (1896) U.S. Supreme Court Meyer v. Richards
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  5. U.S. 385 (1896) Meyer v. Richards
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  6. of sale, and is therefore implied in every such contract unless there be an express stipulation to the contrary. Bayon v. Vavasseur
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  7. Strawbridge v. Warfield
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  8. existing obligation. This proposition is an obvious contradiction in terms, and, of course, refutes itself. In Knight v. Lanfear
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  9. erased, the court held that the seller was bound to return the price. In Pugh v. Moore
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  10. his transferee to take the entire amount of the security to the extent necessary to pay the notes transferred. Salzman v. Creditors
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  11. and the adjudications of the French courts are persuasive as to the proper construction of the Louisiana Code. Viterbo v. Friedlander
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  12. Aubrey & Rau, vol. 5, p. 442. The courts of France from an early day have applied the same principle. In Prat v. Dervieux
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  13. claim at the time of the sale compelled the seller to restore the price. Journal Du Palais, 1807, p. 311. In Revel v. Lippman
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  14. where the parties buy, not an existing obligation, but the chance of there being one. This is illustrated by Knight v. Lanfear
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  15. of the proposition relating to the operation of the law merchant, in the State of Louisiana, is well founded. Harrod v. Lafayre
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  16. Wagner v. Kenner
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  17. Barry v. Insurance
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  18. McDonough v. Millaudon
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  19. Page 163 U. S. 404 upon the vendor is that of the genuineness of the signatures to the paper sold. In Pugh v. Moore
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  20. the provisions of the Civil Code of Louisiana, and like rulings were previously expressed in Sun Mutual Insurance Co. v. Board
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  21. of Liquidation, 31 La.Ann. 176, and in State v. Board
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  22. law, not upon any peculiar doctrine of commercial law, that the cases in the common law courts proceed. Thus, in Jones v. Ryde
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  23. endorsement, the negotiator professes not to be answerable for their validity. This question was much mooted in Fenn v. Harrison
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  24. In Wilkinson v. Johnson
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  25. He was held entitled to recover upon the general doctrine of the common law relating to contracts. In Young v. Cole
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  26. although there was no question of forgery or alteration, upon the common law principle already stated. Lament v. Heath
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  27. sale and purchase of negotiable paper without recourse, since the scrip in question was nonnegotiable. In Gompertz v. Bartlett
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  28. In Gurney v. Womersley
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  29. which the thought is clothed, the American and English courts are in full accord. This is shown by the case of Utley v. Donaldson
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  30. U. S. 29 , 94 U. S. 45 , where Benjamin on Sales is approvingly referred to, as also Flynn v. Allen
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  31. Penn.St. 482, and Webb v. Odell
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  32. is claimed to be controlled other than by the general principles of the common law, though in three cases -- Baxter v. Duren
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  33. Me. 140, Fisher v. Rieman
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  34. Md. 497, and Ellis v. Wild
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  35. the principle of caveat emptor, no implied warranty even that the signatures to the paper were not forged. Ellis v. Wild
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  36. was, however, expressly overruled in Merriam v. Wolcott
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  37. Allen 258, 260, and from the allusions to Baxter v. Duren
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  38. by limiting it to nonexistence resulting from a particular nullity. There is an exceptional case, Littauer v. Goldman
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  39. in New York, and the decision is strongly criticized by the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey in Wood v. Sheldon
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  40. N.J.L. 421, 425. In Giffert v. West
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  41. as a condition of the principal contract, to an implied warranty of the existence of the thing sold. In Hannum v. Richardson
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  42. Nor is there any foundation for the assertion that Otis v. Cullum
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  43. U. S. 447 , and the cases of Orleans v. Platt
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  44. U. S. 676 , and Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Middleport
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  45. U. S. 534 , both of which cite Otis v. Cullum
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  46. ordinary rule of the common law. On the contrary, that case expressly rested its conclusion on the decision in Lament v. Heath
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  47. involved no question of the scope of the warranty, but solely what was the thing bought. Nor does the case of Otis v. Cullum
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  48. of want of power, and therefore would be both presumed to have acted with reference to such knowledge. This is Otis v. Cullum
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  49. The distinction pointed out by the foregoing statement not only illustrates the correctness of the decision in Otis v. Cullum
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  50. to extend it to the state of facts presented in the case under consideration. Indeed, in examining and applying Otis v. Cullum
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