White v. Wolf

Citations

• 185 Pa. 369
• 39 A. 1011
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 725

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Cancelation of contract.</p> <p>Plaintiffs agreed to manufacture and ship certain goods to defendants in lots beginning on a certain day mentioned. Subsequently plaintiffs wrote defendants that on account of a strike they would be obliged to have an extension of time of about forty days to deliver the goods. Defendants wi’ote first that they could not make any change in the order, and then wrote canceling the order, stating that on account of plaintiffs’ inability to deliver the goods they had been obliged to leave them out of their price list, and that under the circumstances the goods would be of no use to them. It appeared that if the shipments had begun on the day designated in the contract it would have taken about four months to complete the deliveries. The notice of the refusal to make the extension was given one month and twenty-one clays before the time to which the change was requested to be made. Held, that the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover damages from defendants.</p>