Zipp Manufacturing Co. v. Pastorino

97 N.W. 904, 120 Wis. 176, 1904 Wisc. LEXIS 60

• Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Decided: January 12, 1904
• Status: Published

Opinion

WiNSiow, J.

This is an action to recover tbe purchase price of a barrel of vanilla sold by tbe plaintiff to tbe defendants, who were wholesale manufacturers of candy, under an agreement that if, upon fair test, it did not prove satisfactory it might be returned. The defense was that the vanilla was of poor quality and proved unsatisfactory upon a test being, made, and was returned. A verdict for the plaintiff was directed on the ground that the evidence showed without dispute that the defendants had accepted the vanilla by using in their business a far larger amount than was reasonably necessary for testing purposes. Examination of the evidence shows that the direction was plainly right. It appeared without dispute that a satisfactory test could be made by the use of a few ounces; also that the defendants used from four to six ounces daily in the manufacture of candy for a period of more than six weeks, during which time they made and sold about three tons of candy flavored with the vanilla, although by their own admissions they discovered that it was not satisfactory after making the first test. For testing purposes they could only use such quantity as was fairly and reasonably necessary to determine its quality. Cream City C. Co. v. Friedlander, 84 Wis. 53, 54 N. W. 28. When they went beyond this, as they unquestionably did in this case, they made it their own, and lost the right of rejection.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.