Holt v. Brown & Co.

The plaintiff and defendants entered into the following written contract:

“Osceola, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1879.

“Geo. O. Holt has this day sold to S. P. Brown & Oo. ten thousand pounds choice factory butter, at 26 cents per pound, put up in patent tin pails, to be delivered at said Brown & Co.’s option up to the 15th day of January, 1880.”

The plaintiff claims that this contract afterward, during December, 1879, was so changed by.parol as to increase the cpiantity of butter to twenty thousand pounds. Ten thousand pounds of butter was delivered and paid for, and defendants denied having made any other or…