Lykens v. Bowling & Lawson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Lykens sold one hundred barrels of flour to Bowling and Lawson, retail merchants at Hitchins, Kentucky, at the price of $1,300.00, and Bowling and Lawson paid Lykens $1,050.00 on the purchase price. Some months later Bowling and Lawson having failed and refused to pay. the balance, $250.00, Lykens brought this action against them to recover for the goods sold and delivered to them.

Bowling and Lawson answered that the transaction grew out of a contract between them and the plaintiff Lykens for flour “to be sold and delivered to them at Hitchins,…