Hooker-Bassett Furniture Co. v. Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company sued out an attachment against Hooker-Bassett Furniture Company, a Virginia corporation. In the declaration it was alleged that the defendant owed the plaintiff a balance of $549.44 on an account for lumber which the plaintiff had sent to the defendant, at various times and in various amounts, in compliance with two contracts, one of which was for six carloads of 4/4 and the other for two carloads of 8/4 sap gum lumber.

In the answer of the defendant the account was denied. It was alleged that the plaintiff had contracted to furnish 100,000 feet of the 4/4 and…