Canton Cotton Mills v. Bowman Overall Co.

*21These suits were brought to. recover damages for breach of alleged contracts for the sale of cloth goods for future delivery, the defendants having refused to receive the goods, their defenses being, in substance: (1) That the alleged contracts were never bindingly completed; (2) that they were not with complainant Canton Cotton Mills, the manufacturer, but with the Farish Company, not as agents of the complainant, but as principal; and (3) that they were breached by the complainant in that it failed to ship and tender to defendants the quantity or quality of goods called for.

The chancellor…