Louis P. Hyman & Co. v. H. H. Snyder Co.

OpiNion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

H. H. Snyder Company had a contract to wreck the old city hospital in Louisville. The building contained a large quantity of old iron, pipe, lead, etc. On September 14, 1911, Louis P. Hyman & Company wrote to H. H. Snyder the following letter:

“We beg to confirm purchase of all the scrap iron, pipe, etc., from the old City Hospital at Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents ($8.50) per ton, the copper wire, free of insulation, Ten (10) cents per lb., and the old lead pipe at Three Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($3.75) per hundred lbs.”

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