Gordesky Gordesky v. Ginsburg

Opinion by Gawthrop, J., This was an action to recover for merchandise sold and delivered. The statement of claim contained the common counts in indebitatus assumpsit and on a quantum meruit and a copy of plaintiffs’ book account. Defendant set up in her affidavit of defense that she did not purchase or enter into any contract for the purchase of goods from plaintiff, that she did not order or receive any merchandise from plaintiff, and averred that the goods were sold to her husband, Louis Ginsburg, on the day on which the goods were charged to her by plaintiff, and that he ordered the goods and agreed to pay for them. At the trial plaintiff proved an oral contract with de *205 fendant for the delivery and the delivery to her by it of merchandise amounting to $716.40. Two questions are raised. It is, claimed that there was a variance between the allegations and the proofs, and that plaintiff was not entitled, under the pleadings, to recover on an express oral contract. This question was settled adversely to appellant in A. & S. Wilson Co. v. Reighard, 230 Pa. 141, in which it is held that there is not a variance where an express promise, not under seal, and fully performed was proved under a declaration in indebitatus assumpsit. The other complaint is of the statement of the trial judge in his charge that “the defendant, in the affidavit of defense, admits the delivery.” This statement by the judge was not strictly accurate. But the jury could not have been misled and the defendant could not have been harmed by the statement because defendant admitted in her testimony that she receipted for the goods that came to the store from all houses. The issue was not delivery, but whether defendant ordered the goods and agreed to pay for them. This was submitted in a charge free from error, and the evidence fully justifies the verdict. The judgment is affirmed.