This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
If the vendor delivers the amount agreed upon for each installment as it comes due, the fact that the goods delivered in certain installments are not up to the standard fixed by the contract, is not such breach of the entire contract as excuses the vendee from taking and paying for the remaining installments.1 If the vendor does not deliver an installment at the time agreed upon, and the goods are not up to the standard, such default amounts to a breach of the entire contract and the vendee is justified in refusing to accept and pay for subsequent installments.2
3 Cleveland Rolling Mill V. Rhodes, 121 U. S. 255; Norrington v. Wright. 115 U. S. 188.
4 Conway v. Fitzgerald, 70 Vt. 103; 39 Atl. 634.
5 Hoare v. Rennie, 5 H. & N. 19; Coddington v. Paleologo, L. R. 2 Ex. 193; Reuter v. Sala, 4 C. P. D. 239.
6 Simpson v. Crippen, L. R. 8 Q. B. 14.
7 Bowes v. Shand, 2 App. Cas. 455; reversing 2 Q. B. D. 112; which reversed 1 Q. B. D. 470.
1 Iron ore. Worthington v. Giv-in, 119 Ala. 44; 43 L. R. A. 382; 24 So. 739. Corn. Miller v. Moore, 83 Ga. 684; 20 Am. St. Rep. 329; 6 L. R. A. 374; 10 S. E. 360. Bark. Blackburn v. Reilly, 47 N. J. L. 290; 54 Am. Rep. 159; 1 Atl. 27. Glass. Cahen v. Piatt, 69 N. Y. 348; 25 Am. Rep. 203. Coal. Scott v. Coal Co., 89 Pa. St. 231; 33 Am. Rep. 753.
2 Cloth. King Phillip Mills v. Setter, 12 R. I. 82; 34 Am. Rep. 603.
 
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