Austin, Nichols & Co. v. Lingo

This is an appeal from a judgment for costs in favoa* of the appellees, defendants below, in an action brought against them by the appellants.

Austin, Nichols & Oo., the appellants, in 1916, were engaged in the wholesale grocery business in New York and other cities.

On Feb. 4th, 1916, U. H. Dudley & Co., brokers, of New York, wrote Wm E. Robinson & Oo., brokers of Belair, Maryland, that they had, in Austin, Nichols & Oo., a purchaser for “1,800 cases of No. 3, Standard Tomatoes of 1916 packing at 80c per dozen, f. o. b. Maryland Factory,” and in their letter further stated that “they (Austin,…