Questions from Business Law

Q: Joc Oil bought a cargo of fuel oil for resale. The

Joc Oil bought a cargo of fuel oil for resale. The certificate from the foreign refinery stated the sulfur content of the oil was 0.5 percent. Joc Oil entered into a written contract with Con Ed for t...

Q: The plaintiff, a German wine producer and exporter, contracted to

The plaintiff, a German wine producer and exporter, contracted to ship 620 cases of wine to the defendant, a distributor in North Carolina. The contract was silent as to the shipment destination. Duri...

Q: Can-Key Industries, Inc., manufactured a turkey-hatching

Can-Key Industries, Inc., manufactured a turkey-hatching unit, which it sold to Industrial Leasing Corporation (ILC), which leased it to Rose-A-Linda Turkey Farms. ILC conditioned its obligation to pa...

Q: Frederick Manufacturing Corporation ordered 500 dozen units of Import Traders’ rubber pads

Frederick Manufacturing Corporation ordered 500 dozen units of Import Traders’ rubber pads for $2,580. The order indicated that the pads should be “as soft as possible.” Import Traders delivered the r...

Q: Adams, who reads with difficulty, arranged to borrow $2

Adams, who reads with difficulty, arranged to borrow $2,000 from Bell. Bell prepared a note, which Adams read laboriously. As Adams was about to sign it, Bell diverted Adams’s attention and substitute...

Q: Neptune Research & Development, Inc. (the buyer), manufacturer

Neptune Research & Development, Inc. (the buyer), manufacturer of solar-operated valves used in scientific instruments, saw advertised in a trade journal a hole-drilling machine with a very high degre...

Q: ALPAC and Eagon are corporations that import and export raw logs.

ALPAC and Eagon are corporations that import and export raw logs. In April, Setsuo Kimura, ALPAC’s president, and C.K. Ahn, Eagon’s vice president, entered into a contract for ALPAC to ship about 15,0...

Q: Smith, having contracted to sell to Beyer thirty tons of described

Smith, having contracted to sell to Beyer thirty tons of described fertilizer, shipped to Beyer by carrier thirty tons of fertilizer that he stated conformed to the contract. Nothing was stated in the...

Q: Benny and Sheree entered into a contract for the sale of one

Benny and Sheree entered into a contract for the sale of one hundred barrels of flour. No mention was made of any place of delivery. Thereafter, Sheree demanded that Benny deliver the flour at her pla...

Q: Johnson, a manufacturer of air-conditioning units, made a

Johnson, a manufacturer of air-conditioning units, made a written contract with Maxwell to sell to Maxwell forty units at a price of $200 each and to deliver them at a certain apartment building owned...