Rose of Aberlone

Rose of Aberlone (HM16CV)

Location: Plymouth, MI 48170 Wayne County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 22.215', W 83° 28.139'

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Michigan Legal Milestone

T.C. Sherwood, president of Plymouth National Bank, contracted in 1886 with Hiram Walker of Walkerville, Ontario for the purchase of a cow, Rose 2d of Aberlone. Both parties believed that Rose was barren and would not breed, and that mistake led to one of the most famous contract cases in U.S. history.

Mr. Sherwood tried to pay Hiram Walker the agreed-upon price, $80, but Mr. Walker refused it after discovering that Rose was pregnant. Her value was now about 10 times greater than that agreed to by the parties. Mr. Sherwood sued to take possession of Rose at the original price.

The Michigan Supreme Court in 1887 declared in Sherwood v. Walker that, because a mutual mistake affecting the substance of the transaction had been made, Hiram Walker had a right to rescind the contract, and keep the cow. Law students ever since have studied the case as a classic example of the contracts law doctrine of rescission based on mutual mistake.

Mr. Sherwood went on to distinction as Michigan's first banking commissioner, Hiram Walker & Sons is a worldwide leader in the production of alcohol beverages, and Rose achieved immortality in a poem by UCLA Professor Brainerd Currie, who concludes, "For students of law must still atone/For the shame of Rose of Aberlone."
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HM NumberHM16CV
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Marker Number18
Year Placed1993
Placed ByState Bar of Michigan and the Suburban Bar Association of Western Wayne County
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Date Added Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 6:53pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 296708 N 4693838
Decimal Degrees42.37025000, -83.46898333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 22.215', W 83° 28.139'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 22' 12.90" N, 83° 28' 8.34" W
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Area Code(s)248, 313, 734
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 301-381 S Main St, Plymouth MI 48170, US
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