Crescent Milling Co. v. H. N. Strait Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota; Page Morris, Judge. Action by the H. N. Strait Manufacturing Company against the Crescent Milling Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
AMIDON, District Judge.
The Strait Manufacturing Company was plaintiff below. It brought this action against the Crescent Milling Company to recover the purchase price of an engine. The contract • was in writing, and took the form of a proposal from the Manufacturing Company, and an acceptance by the Milling Company. It binds the plaintiff to supply and install in the defendant’s mill at Fairfax, Minn., a 300 indicated horse power horizontal tandem double acting gas engine, which engine is to operate the flouring mill of the purchaser, and the lighting plant of the village, and, at 150…
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- Grimes Dry Goods Co. v. MalcolmSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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