Lebanon Valley Iron & Steel Co. v. American Shipbuilding & Dock Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the-Uni led States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Action by the Lebanon Valley Iron & Steel Company against the American Shipbuilding & Dock Corporation. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error, plaintiff below and herein so called, brought this suit to recover the contract price of a quantity ol galvanized iron spikes, which it manufactured for defendant on the latter’s order. The trial resulted in a verdict for defendant, and' the case comes here on assignments of error.
The order in controversy, which included other articles besides the spikes, was transmitted to plaintiff under date of September 6, 1918, arid accepted a few days later. It contained the following:
“Please ship this material at the earliest possible date. It is clearly…
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