Tennessee & Southeastern Coal Co. v. Schwitzer Cummins Co.

As it reaches ns, this is a suit by a sales agent against a manufacturer for breach of a contract under which the former handled the product of the latter. There was a decree for the complainant in the chancery court, affirmed by the Court of Appeals, and we have granted a petition for certiorari.

The defendant makes an automatic coal feeding device, or stoker, for furnaces known as “Stokol.” Prior to October 17, 1933, and some time thereafter, defendant had a contract with a concern known as United Stoker Corporation, whereby Stoker Corporation sold and distributed defendant’s entire output…