Kenneweg Co. v. Finney

The controversy in this case arose out of the following facts:

The Kenneweg Company, a corporation, is engaged in the grocery business at Cumberland, and Finney & Robinson are merchandise brokers at Belair. On the 2nd April, 1901, the latter wrote to the former that one of the small packers in Harford County wished to sell a thousand cases No. 3 Standard Tomatoes at 67½ cents per dozen net. On the next day the Kenneweg Company wired an acceptance of this offer and the same day Finney & Robinson sent the sales contract signed by them as brokers and accepted by the seller, J. Barnes Bailey,…