National Bank of Cleburne v. M. M. Pittman Roller Mill

Appellee sued appellants to recover $8,400 damages caused to appellees by reason of the bank’s failure to furnish funds in accordance with the contract with which appellee mill would have purchased 14,000 bushels of wheat from which appellee would have made the sum of $8,400, which represented a reasonable profit appellee would have made on the wheat because of its rise in the market value, from the time it would have been purchased to the time it would have been sold in September, 192). The bank, a federal corporation, a national bank, becoming insolvent, it and its assets were placed in the…