Meyer, Wilson & Co. v. Thompson, De Hart & Co.

The appellants herein commenced an action in the said Circuit Court against the respondents upon a contract for the sale of certain coal from the former to the latter. They *195alleged in their complaint that on or about the twentieth day of August, 1884, they sold to respondents a shipment of coal, consisting of 611 and a fraction tons of the best Lancashire steam coal, at the agreed price of $7.50 per ton, amounting in all to $4,584.59, said coal then being on board the German bark Werra, which was at sea, and was to arrive soon at the city of Portland. That on or about the twenty-eighth day of…