McKinney v. Ragland & Co.

This is an action by the appellants against the appellees to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract. The appellants alleged that appellants and appellees entered into a contract whereby appellants sold to appellees 258 bales of cotton of the value of $20,543; that appellees breached the contract by refusing to pay for the cotton. Whereupon the appellants resold the cotton in order to minimize their damages, and the best available price they could obtain was $19,122; that the difference between the contract price at the time the cotton was sold and delivered to appellees and the…