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 judgment contain a provision ‘Which will enable him, by a return of the note within a certain time, and the payment of the costs, and the satisfaction of the judgment obtained on the note by the First National Bank of Whitewater, to have the judgment in this case satisfied, should such a judgment on a new trial be rendered against defendant. Thayer v. Manley, 73 N. Y. 305.

For the error of the court in refusing to take the case from the jury, on the ground that plaintiff had failed to comply with the condition of the warranty requiring written notice of the defect to be given to the company at their office in Whitewater, Wis., the order denying motion for a new trial is reversed, and a new trial is ordered. All concur.

We have carefully considered the petition for rehearing, but are unable to agree to the view therein stated, and which appears to have been the view of the learned trial judge. The contention in the petition is that sending out these experts was a waiver of the provision requiring notice to the company at the home office; or that a reasonable man would be justified in construing it as a waiver. They were sent out to remedy such defects as the company should decide to remedy, and not to make that decision for the company in any particular case. It was convenient and even necessary to have them so near their field of labor that they could readily do the work which the company might decide to do. But so placing them that they would be reasonably close to whatever work they might be called upon to perform was no evidence of a purpose to do away with the provision requiring notice at headquarters. Nor could it be construed by any reasonable man as a waiver of such notice. They were not sent out as business managers to decide whether in a given case an alleged defect should be remedied,—whether the company in case of breach of warranty would furnish another machine, as it might under the contract, or remedy the defects in the one sold; they