Friedman v. Manley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, C. J.

Plaintiffs are wholesale dealers in tobacco, residing in Chicago. The defendants are cigar manufacturers, residing in. Tacoma, in this state. The action was brought to recover the balance due on an account. Por a counterclaim, defendants alleged that, by an oral agreement made on July 18, 1896, at the city of Tacoma, the plaintiffs sold and agreed to deliver to defendants at Tacoma ten bales of Havana tobacco, according to *44sample; that on the 14th of September, 1896, the plaintiffs, for a valuable consideration, sold and agreed to deliver…