Davis v. Guitar

John Guitar sued the Director General of American Railways for damages, alleging that plaintiff had sold to Morris and Company cotton seed oil, “price to be market on date of arrival and loading of tank cars at plaintiff’s place of business,” at Abilene, Tex. That Morris & Co. forwarded to Abilene one certain oil tank car of the capacity of 60,009 pounds, the car reaching Abilene February 20, 1920, but that the defendant failed to notify plaintiff of such arrival until February 25th; that on the 20th of February the market value .of the oil which plaintiff had to sell was 21 cents a pound,…