Tidewater Portland Cement Co. v. Lincoln

The Tidewater Portland Cement Company, the appellant in this case, is engaged in the manufacture of cement at Union Bridge in Carroll County, Maryland, and the appellee, trading as the National Mortar Company, is a dealer in cement operating in the City of Washington. On January 27, 1916, in continuance of previous relations of the same nature, a contract was executed by which it was agreed that the appellee should purchase from the appellant fifty thousand barrels of cement between the date of the contract and the end of the current calendar year, in quantities; not exceeding ten thousand…