Helmig v. Rockwell Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

The instant controversy involves two separate appeals from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County — one in an assumpsit, the other in a trespass action. The same appellant and factual situation were before this court in the prior appeal, reported at 380 Pa. 305, 111 A. 2d 118. Mr. Justice Chidsey, in the prior appeal, painstakingly stated the facts. Because of this we will restate only those facts which comprise the essence of the present controversy.

In 1948 appellant, a steel broker, undertook to furnish appellee Rockwell Manufacturing…