Wheeler Lumber Bridge and Supply Co. v. Anderson

-The evidence tends to show that sometime not long prior to January 25, 1956, defendant, as a representative of Weather Insulating Window and Door Company (hereinafter called the “Insulating Company”) approached plaintiff to sell the Insulating Company a carload of lumber upon credit. Plaintiff is a wholesale lumber dealer in Des Moines. The Insulating Company was a Des Moines concern, conservatively described by its officer as “financially not very heavy.”

Plaintiff looked up its credit rating and refused to extend the requested credit. Thereupon, according to the testimony of plaintiff’s…