Brown v. Price

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

This litigation was commenced by appellee Price against appellant, Pox Brown, in the Warren circuit court, in November, 1922, on a verbal contract between Brown on the one side and Price and Hamilton on the other, for the purchase of slack coal at the price of ten (10c) cents per bushel, it being alleged by Price in his original petition that such a contract was made between them, and that pursuant to it he had advanced Brown the ■sum of $300.00 and that the slack furnished by Brown was old and worthless; that in towing the coal in barges from the…