Puget Sound Machinery Depot v. Rigby

Citations

• 13 Wash. 264
• 43 P. 39
• 1895 Wash. LEXIS 87

Syllabus

<p>CONTRACTS — MANUFACTURE OF SPECIAL ARTICLES — STATUTE OF FRAUDS.</p> <p>A contract for the manufacture and delivery of an article is not within the statute of frauds forbidding the sale of articles of personal property of the value of more than fifty dollars without a memorandum in writing, if the completed article is one of special value to the person for whom it was manufactured and is not a marketable commodity.</p> <p>The fact that one employed to manufacture and deliver an article, which, when completed, will not be a marketable commodity, purchases as merchandise most of the different parts of which the article is made instead of manufacturing them himself, and puts them together by connections manufactured in accordance with the plans and specifications of the contract, does not bring the' contract within the statute of frauds relating to the sale of personal property.</p>