Donati v. Cleveland Grain Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Action at law by the Cleveland Grain Company against V. Donati. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error (plaintiff below and hereinafter so called) carries on at Cleveland, Ohio, the business indicated by its name. Its agent and broker at Richmond, Va., is W. M. Lewis, a member of the Richmond Grain Exchange, and among the grain buyers of that city, to whom Lewis made more or less frequent sales, is the defendant Donati. It seems that shortly before October 14, 1912, Donati applied to Lewis for a price on 50 cars of corn for delayed shipments, and Lewis took the matter up with his company. A considerable correspondence followed by letter and…
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