Medart Pulley Co. v. Dubuque Turbine & Roller Mill Co.

In the year 1K99 the defendant, having a contract for tbe erection of an electric light and power plant at Mauston, Wis., ordered certain materials and *245machinery from plaintiff, a company doing business in St. Louis. Plaintiff -undertook to fill the order within a certain limited period, but failed to do so until a considerably later date, by reason of which defendant claims to have been injured. This failure of 'plaintiff to perform its contract within the agreed time, and defendant’s claim for damage, .was the subject of considerable correspondence between the parties, defendant refusing to…