Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. v. Missouri Furniture, Inc.

WESTHUES, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, a corporation, located in New York, filed this suit against the Missouri Furniture, Inc., a corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, a wholesale distributor for plaintiff, to recover $141,323.60 for rugs and carpets purchased by defendant from plaintiff. The defendant filed a counterclaim seeking damages in the sum of $179,161.90 on the theory that plaintiff in issuing a public announcement to the effect that plaintiff intended to abandon the manufacture of Sanford rugs, for which defendant was a distributor under a contract,…