Baetjer v. New England Alcohol Co.

This action was originally brought to recover the sum of $259,473.19 alleged to have become due and payable by the defendant1 to the plaintiffs on August 31, 1942, on account for a balance of two million fifty-nine thousand three hundred eleven gallons of Puerto Rican molasses out of a total amount of two million five hundred thousand gallons which the plaintiffs had agreed to sell and the defendant had agreed to buy under a contract in writing entered into between the parties on April 3 of that year. Early in 1944 the molasses in question was sold in accordance with a stipulation of the…