Ober v. . Katzenstein

The plaintiff appealed because the defendant was allowed to show in evidence that under his contract with the plaintiff he had sold to his customers 88 tons of fertilizers at a profit of $2.25 per ton, which the plaintiff had failed to ship; and also to show that he had prepared two plant-beds at a cost of $60, and was unable to use them for that purpose because of failure to receive the guano; and, thirdly, because the defendant was permitted to show that the higher priced labor which he had retained for use on the tobacco farm up to the time he had to discharge them on account of failure to…