MITCHELL-HUNTLEY COTTON COMPANY, INC. v. Lawson

OWENS, District Judge:

Plaintiff by this action seeks to specifically enforce contracts under which the defendants in the early spring and preceding planting agreed to sell their cotton. The defendants and third-party defendants are all cotton farmers. Defendant W. C. Lawson is a cotton merchant who contracted with each of the other defendants and with each of the third-party defendants to purchase all or part of their respective cotton crops for 1973. He in turn sold or assigned his interest in this cotton to plaintiff. This court by its order of September 18, 1973, granted a preliminary…