Hastings & Co. v. Christopher

Christopher sued Hastings & Co., in the city court of Atlanta, for damages resulting to him from a breach of contract entered into between the parties with reference to the sale of a large quantity of cottonseed, which Hastings & Co. agreed to buy, but which they declined to accept, on the ground that the seed did not come up to the sample by which they were sold. It is insisted with great earnestness, by counsel for the plaintiffs in error, that Christopher filed no replication denying their plea that the sale was by sample, and that Christopher did not, as a witness, deny that the sale was…