Nut House v. Pacific Oil Mills

Citations

• 102 Wash. 114
• 172 P. 841
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 896

Syllabus

<p>Frauds, Statute of—Sale op Goods—Memorandum—Sufficiency. A memorandum of an order for the sale of goods describing the thing sold, the names of the parties, price and terms of payment, signed by the party charged, meets the requirements of the statute of frauds, though informal and containing abbreviations which it is necessary to explain by oral evidence.</p> <p>Judgment—Bar—Matters Concluded—Set-off. Judgment in an action by assignees, in which the defendant pleaded, hut could not recover, an offset it had against the assignor over and above the amount of the assigned claim, is not a bar to an action by the former defendants against the assignor for the balance due over and above the offset allowed in the former action.</p>