Hossier Realty Co. v. Caddo Cotton Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action by the Hossier Realty Company against the Caddo Cotton Oil Company. A judgment for defendant was reversed by the Court of Appeals, and judgment rendered for plaintiff, and defendant applies for certiorari or wilt of review.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiff sold to defendant, represented by an agent, three car loads of cotton seed, at a price of $20 per ton. At the time of the sale the seed formed part of a pile of seed in plaintiff’s ginhouse. The cars of seed were shipped to defendant at Shreveport, and after inspection were rejected as damaged and unmerchantable and over 50 per cent, rotten. Whereupon the plaintiff paid the freight and demurrage, sold the seed *329at the market price, and sued the defendant for $651.25, representing its loss in the transaction.
Defendant answered that it had bought good, sound seed, at the current market…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rocchi v. SchwabacherSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1881
- Millaudon v. PriceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1848
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