Mississippi Shipbuilding Corp. v. . Lever Bros. Co.

On the 25th day of January, 1918, the Mississippi Shipbuilding Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Delaware with offices at 32 Broadway, New York city, and Lever Brothers Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Maine, represented by W. H. Woolner, its agent and attorney in fact, entered into a written agreement for the building and purchase of a four-masted auxiliary schooner of about 1,500 English tons total deadweight to be completely equipped in all respects, ready for sea, except as to stores, and free of…