Huse v. McQuade

This was an action to recover a balance claimed to be due for ice sold and delivered by plaintiff to defendants. The answer admitted the delivery of the ice, and that the price had not been paid ; and it is further alleged, that a contract in writing was entered into between the parties to the suit, by which the plaintiffs were to deliver to the defendant a certain quantity of ice during the year 1870 at a stipulated price, and that plaintiffs failed to perform the contract on their part, by reason of which the defendant was damaged $1,000. Plaintiffs say in reply, that the contract referred…