Ohio Grain Co. v. Swisshelm

Plaintiff alleged that it purchased 1500 bushels of soybeans, at five dollars per bushel, to be picked up at defendant’s farm; that defendant sold the beans to another and plaintiff was required to replace them in the market at $6.12 per bushel; that the cost of trucking and handling would have been twelve cents per bushel; that plaintiff has therefore suffered damage of one dollar per bushel, or a total of $1,500, for which a judgment was demanded. The case was tried to the court, who entered judgment for the defendant.

The court found that on February 9,1973, a telephone conversation…