(i) White v. Mann, 26 Me. 361; Chapman v. Dalton, Plowden, 284; Holtham v. Ryland, 1 Eq. Cas. Abr. 18.

1 A party who has entered into a contract to make and deliver a certain manufactured article within a specified time, having ample time for performance, cannot postpone performance to the last moment, and then excuse it upon the plea of accident; in such a case he takes the responsibility of the delay. Booth v. Spuyten Duyvil Rolling Mill Co. 60 N. T. 487. Where a company agreed to supply water for floating logs from a dam owned by it, a break in the dam does not excuse performance, since such accidents were not guarded against in the contract Keystone Lumber, etc. Co. v. Dole, 43 Mich. 370.