Palestine Cotton Seed Oil Co. v. Corsicana Cotton Oil Co.

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This action was brought by defendant in error against plaintiff in error to recover damages for the breach of a contract of sale of 30,000 gallons of cotton seed oil. The trial of the case by a jury in the court below resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of defendant in error for the sum of $2100, from which judgment this writ of error is prosecuted. The following are the facts as disclosed by the record.

On the 14th of September, 1899, defendant in error agreed to purchase1 ■ of the agent of plaintiff in error five tanks of cotton seed oil at 18 cents per…