Buckhannon Sales Co. v. Appalantic Corp.

NEELY, Justice.

On 1 January 1979 Buckhannon Sales Company, Appalantic Corporation and Monongahela Power Company entered into a contract in which Monongahela Power Company agreed to purchase coal from Ap-palantic with Buckhannon acting as sales agent. By agreement dated 28 August 1980, Appalantic, now under new owners, and Buckhannon established a commission scheme under which Buckhannon would re-cieve compensation for its efforts as sales agent. Buckhannon was to calculate a six percent sales commission from the net sale price of the coal reduced by both the cost of trucking the coal “from…