Capps v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.

Appellants, .on,July 17, 1941, sold 600 bales of cotton to the Rex-Hanover Mills of Gastonia, North Carolina, at a specified price, deliveries to be made in September and October, 1941. Appellants did not have the cotton on hand but expected to buy it from neighboring planters when gathered. Therefore on the same day appellants, through their office manager, filed a message with appel-lee telegraph company, at its Cleveland, Miss., office, addressed to the head of appellants’ firm, who was then in Greensboro, North Carolina, advising of the sale with the admitted purpose, and none other, that…