Pender Lumber Co. v. Wilmington Iron Works
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by tiie Pender Lumber Company against tbe Wilmington Iron Works, beard by Judge Frederick Moore and a jury, at December (Special) Term, 1901, of tbe Superior Court of Pendes County. Prom a judgment for tbe plaintiff, tbe defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
Plaintiffs were engaged in tbe manufacture of lumber, strawberry crates, baskets, and other vegetable packages ; bad made a few crates two years before, and a few tbo past year; previous to November, 1899, they bad made about 6,000 poor crates, but bought tbe baskets for them. In 1899 they bad contracted with responsible parties to manufacture and deliver to them in the months of February and March, 1900, 25,000 crates at tbe price of 25 cents per crate. To comply with their contracts it was necessary for them to- have repaired tbe steel rollers belonging to and a part of their veneering…
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