Babcock Coal Co. v. City of Boston

The plaintiff had a written contract with the defendant for the furnishing of coal to individuals upon the order of the overseers of the public welfare department *519in 1935 and 1936. What the plaintiff proposed to furnish was coal known as “Belle Wyoming & Carbondale coal,” produced at the “mines” of “Kehoe Berge Coal Co.” at Pittston, Pennsylvania, and “to be purchased” from H. N. Hartwell & Son, Inc. The general specifications of the contract called only for “chestnut size of fresh-mined American anthracite of best quality shipped from mines located in” certain named counties in Pennsylvania.…