Hawkins Bros. v. Lesser-Goldman Cotton Co.

Appellee, a foreign corporation with its principal place of business at St. Louis, is engaged in the cotton business and has branch offices at various points in Arkansas, including Texarkana, and on December 23, 1918, appellee, through' its Texarkana office, purchased from appellants, who were engaged in the mercantile business at the town of Foreman, Little River County, 809 bales of cotton, to be delivered at the compress at Hope, Arkansas. The agreed price for the cotton was 30% cents per pound, the price to be paid in advance on the basis of what the parties termed “country weights,” that…