Huntington & Finke Co. v. Lake Erie Lumber & Supply Co.

In the trial court and in the Court of Appeals the parties stood in relatively the same position they do here, and will be referred to respectively as plaintiff and defendant. The contractual relations between these parties, out of which this controversy grows, rest upon letters, telegrams, and other written documents concerning the purchase of lath, together with a certain verbal agreement entered into on March 15, 1919, in the city of Cleveland, between the witness Jones, on behalf of the defendant, and the witness Bernhard, on behalf of the plaintiff, the substance of which was that…