National Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Simon Rice Milling Co.

On September IS, 1918, a contract was entered into between the parties to this suit whereby defendants bound themselves to sell to plaintiff five carloads' of rice, to be delivered one carload during each of the months of October, November, and December, 1916, and January and February, 1917, at the rate of 3^/ie cents per pound.

Plaintiff is a corporation domiciled at Fall River, in the state of Massachusetts, and defendants are engaged in rice milling at Crowley, in this state. Each carload was to contain 400 pockets of rice, and, according to the terms of the contract, freight was to be paid…