Davis v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Macon. Tried before the Hon. John J. Woodward. Assumpsit by the defendant against the plaintiff in error, on a special contract. The facts of the case are sufficiently noticed in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, C. J.
This was an action of assumpsit upon a contract, by which the plaintiff agreed that he would deliver to the defendant, at the Railroad Warehouse in Montgomery, fifty *266bales of cotton of the first gathering and packing of his crop then* growing, being the crop of 1847, by the 15th day of Janaary 1848; the defendant agreeing to pay the plaintiff upon the delivery of the cotton at the rate of ten cents per pound. ) The-testimony introduced on the trial tended to prove the contract as alleged; and it was also shown that the plaintiff had fifty-five bales of cotton of the first packing of his crop…
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