Seth Thomas Clock Co. v. Dobbins

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 325
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 67

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Acceptance of offer — Reasonable time — Question for jury.</p> <p>Where a person gives an order by letter to a clock manufacturing company to alter two certain clock movements, and after waiting nineteen days for an acceptance of the order, rescinds the order, the question whether the nineteen days is a reasonable time is for the jury.</p> <p>Contract — Evidence—Excessive price — Question for jury.</p> <p>In an action to recover the cost of alteration of two clock movements, where it appears that the retail price for the movements was $2.50 a piece, and the defendant is charged $30.00 for making the alterations, the defendant should be permitted to testify as to the reasonableness of the charge, after he has qualified himself to speak, as one having special knowledge respecting the work ordered, and his testimony in connection with the other testimony should then be submitted to the jury to pass upon.</p>