Pinckney v. Dambmann Bros., & Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
5th. That the damages recoverable for the breach of said contract was the difference between the contract price of the phosphate, and its market price at the place of delivery, after the 9th of May, 1888, that being the day on which, under the contract as extended, deliveries were to begin. Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
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5th. That the damages recoverable for the breach of said contract was the difference between the contract price of the phosphate, and its market price at the place of delivery, after the 9th of May, 1888, that being the day on which, under the contract as extended, deliveries were to begin. Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. First Exception. — The plaintiffs to sustain the issire on their part proved by Charles Glaser, one of the plaintiffs, that his firm had been dealing with the defendants since 1885, or possibly longer. The…
1Opinion of the Court
McSherry, J.,
delivered,the opinion of the Court.
On the tenth of June, 1886, the appellees purchased from the appellant three thousand tons of Dorchester mine, South Carolina, rock phosphate, at five dollars and fifty cents per ton, delivered on board the buyers’ vessels at Charleston, to be paid for in cash, or, at buyers’ option, by note at four months; and they agreed to-remove the rock between September the first, 1886, and April the thirtieth, 1887. On the 24th of December, 1886, the appellees purchased from the appellant “three cargoes” of the same phosphate at four dollars and…
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