West Virginia Coal Co. v. City of St. Louis

This is an action for damages sought to be recovered on the ground that defendant city breached a contract made with plaintiff, for the purchase of 15,000 tons of coal screenings at $6.50 per ton, for the city waterworks. The cause was tried to the court and judgment went in favor of defendant. The plaintiff submitted its case upon an agreed statement of facts, and then defendant's offered demurrer being denied, the city submitted its defense upon an additional agreed statement of facts. These statements were taken subject to objections as to their competency, respectively reserved and made…