Central Freight Lines, Inc. v. Clarke & Courts, Inc.

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

Clarke & Courts, Inc., a retailer of office equipment and supplies, placed an order with Vickery & Company, Inc., a carpet jobber, for two custom made Barwick brand carpets of a certain color and of specific but unusual dimensions. This order was placed with Vickery & Company to secure custom made carpet for two separate floor areas in the Hutchings-Sealy National Bank of Galveston, a Clarke & Courts customer. Vickery in turn placed an order for the carpeting with E. T. Bar-wick Mills, Inc., Chamblee, Georgia, and that firm arranged with Lewis F. Pursley, doing business…