Bates v. Diamond Crystal Salt Co.

Ragan, C.

The Diamond Crystal Salt Company sued Bates, Wilcox & Streeter. The petition alleged that the salt company sold and delivered to Bates, Wilcox & Streeter, at their request, 375 cases of Diamond Crystal salt at an agreed price of eighty-five cents per case, amounting to $318.75, and that the defendants were entitled to a credit of $45 commission earned by them on the sale of salt, and prayed judgment for $273.75, with seven per cent interest from the 30th day of August, 1887, the day of the sale and delivery of the salt.

Bates, Wilcox & Streeter answered this petition, admitting the…