Hernandez v. Brookdale Mills, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Brookdale Mills, Inc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of April, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of April, 1920, denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiffs, who are copartners engaged in the city of New York in the business of exporting and importing, brought this action to recover damages for the failure of the defendant, a domestic corporation, to perform two contracts for the sale *371to the plaintiffs of sugar bags to be shipped from Calcutta, India, to Havana, Cuba. They recovered a verdict for $523,600, representing the difference between the contract price and the market price of the sugar bags. Each contract consists of a letter addressed to the plaintiffs on the letter-head of the defendant and signed in its name…
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