Aldefer v. Cleveland Store Fixture Co.

33 Ohio C.C. Dec. 360, 21 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 351, 1906 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 336

Opinion

HENRY, J.

This proceeding in error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment for $653.34 recovered at the September term of the common pleas court, by the Cleveland Store Fixture Co., for the unpaid balance alleged to be due on a written contract for the erection of certain fixtures in plaintiff in error’s store in Akron. The defense was that the fixtures did not conform with the contract in divers particulars. A small portion of the goods furnished under the contract were actually shipped back, but the remainder were put in place by the company’s representative, on the plea, acquiesced in by Aldefer acording to his testimony, that it was then raining and the goods could not be left out in the weather. Aldefer testifies that he then and thereafter protested that the fixtures were not in accordance with the contract, and that the company’s representative promised some changes which were never made. But the court below ruled that he had accepted the fixtures within the rule of Bowman Lumber Co. v. Anderson, 70 Ohio St. 16 [70 N. E. 503] and charged the jury to disregard the claims of the defendant except as to certain minor matters.

We think the evidence on this subject should not have been excluded from the consideration of the jury, and that under that evidence the question 6f acceptance was one for the jury.

For error in excluding evidence of the nonconformity of the fixtures furnished with the contract and for error in refusing the fifth request to charge, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Marvin and Winch, JJ., concur.