Hall-Woolford Tank Co. v. R.F. Kilns, Inc.

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

In November of 1995, Jack Hillman, general manager of Hall-Woolford Tank Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, contacted Theodore Hartman, the president of R.F. Kilns, Inc., of Salamanca, New York, to inquire about the feasibility and cost of certain lumber-drying services. More particularly, Hillman told Hartman that he was contemplating buying a quantity of red cypress wood from Florida for use in Hall-Woolford’s construction of wooden tanks and fermen-ters. Because the red cypress had a high moisture content, however, it needed to be professionally dryed prior to use.…