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  "name": "A. H. COLVARD v. CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Colvard v. Carolina & Tennessee Southern Railway Co.",
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      "A. H. COLVARD v. CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY."
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        "text": "Clark, C. J.\nThe plaintiff delivered certain cross-ties upon defendant\u2019s right of way at an agreed price. Subsequently the defendant reduced the price of ties, and thereafter inspected and accepted plaintiff\u2019s ties and offered to pay the reduced price. This the plaintiff declined to accept. There was no dispute as to the number of ties.\nThe plaintiff, being indebted to the bank, told the defendant to send a statement and certificate of the amount due him to -said bank. The account, when rendered, was for the proper number of ties, but calculated at the reduced rate and totaling $316.20, being $73 less than the amount due on the basis of the contract price. The plaintiff notified both the defendant and the bank that he would accept said sum only in part payment. The bank receipted in full \u201cof above account.\u201d\nThe defendant introduced no evidence that the plaintiff ever intended or agreed to acceqit less than the contract price. The evidence is plenary and uncontradicted that he did not. The account rendered was no more than an admission by tbe defendant tbat it owed plaintiff $316.20. Tbe bank\u2019s receipt was only for tbe \u201cabove account,\u201d i. e., for tbe amount due upon tbat admission. It did not purport to be in full of plaintiff\u2019s demands, and bad it been it would bave been unauthorized. Tbe defendant showed no'such authority, and, indeed, tbe evidence of the bank and of the plaintiff was tbat tbe plaintiff refused to authorize tbe acceptance of tbe $316.20, except as part payment.\nThis ease is totally different from Kerr v. Sanders, 122 N. C., 635, and the cases cited under it in the annotated edition. There a check was sent the creditor, reciting in tbe face of it \u201cin full for services.\u201d This tbe defendant endorsed and cashed, thereby accepting it as full settlement. A later case is Armstrong v. Lonon, 149 N. C., 435.\nNo error.",
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        "author": "Clark, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "A. M. Fry for plaintiff.",
      "\u2022 Moore & Rollins for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "A. H. COLVARD v. CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.\n(Filed 23 December, 1909.)\nPrincipal and Agent \u2014 Account Stated \u2014 Admissions\u2014Receipt \u2014 Agent\u2019s Unauthorized Acts. '\nPlaintiff, being indebted to a bank, delivered, at an agreed price and under a contract of purchase with defendant railroad, a certain number of crossties at said road and told defendant to send statement and certificate of the amount to the bank. Thereafter defendant accepted the ties, but at a reduced price, and sent statement accordingly to the bank and had the bank to receipt the statement \u201cin full of above account.\u201d The plaintiff notified both the bank and the railroad company that he would accept the payment only in part. Held, (1) the account rendered by defendant to the bank was no more than an admission that it owed the plaintiff the sum stated therein; (2) the receipt of the bank was not in full of plaintiff\u2019s demand, but only in full for the amount stated; (3) there was no evidence to warrant the bank to receipt for plaintiff in full of his demand, and such receipt would not be binding upon him. Kerr v. Sanders, 122 N. C., 635; Armstrong v. Lonon, 149 N. C., 435, cited and distinguished.\nAppeal by defendant from Ferguson, J., July-August Term, 1909, of SwaiN.\nThe facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.\nA. M. Fry for plaintiff.\n\u2022 Moore & Rollins for defendant."
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