Walker Grain Co. v. Denison Mill & Grain Co.

The appellee grain company sued the appellant grain company for damages for failure to deliver 20,000 bushels of “No. 3 Oklahoma shelled corn,” as it was alleged had been agreed upon in conversations over the telephone in November, 1912. The appellant company denied that such was the contract, insisting that, in a preliminary Way, it had merely indicated over the telephone its willingness to sell and deliver, at specified times and for a specified price, 20,-000 bushels of “No. 3 mixed corn,” but that it was understood and agreed that such tentative agreement was not to be complete and…