Scullin Steel Co. v. Mississippi Valley Iron Co.

The plaintiff obtained a verdict and judgment against defendant upon both of the two counts of its petition, each of which set out that defendant had sold and agreed to deliver to plaintiff certain quantities of machine cast pig iron, and had failed to deliver the same, to plaintiff's damage. The contract pleaded in each count was for the sale and delivery of 5,000 tons of iron of certain specifications, to be delivered in equal monthly installments, during the months of March, April, May and June, 1920, at the price of $35 per ton. The contracts so pleaded were made respectively on November…