Stewart-Morehead Co. v. Bibb Mfg. Co.

These two cases turn on the construction to be given the same verdict and the report of an auditor, the verdict having-been rendered on exceptions of fact, filed by both plaintiff and defendant, to the report of an auditor in an action at law.

Stewart-Morehead Company sued the Bibb Manufacturing'Company for the alleged difference between the contract price and the lower market price of 704 bales of cotton, “fully low middling,” at the time and place of delivery, under two contracts, each for the sale of 500 bales, the plaintiff alleging that the defendant refused to accept or pay for a part'of…