Marshall v. Moultrie Cotton Mills

This case arose from an action by a vendor against the vendee for $1080, as the “value and agreed purchase-price” of described cotton-mill looms and beams, orally ordered by the vendee for shipment by the vendor on an “order-notify” bill of lading with draft attached. The petition as amendéd alleged that the plaintiff so shipped the machines to the defendant, and sent the bill of lading with sight-draft attached to the Western Union Telegraph Company at the place of destination; that the defendant refused'to pay the draft or receive the machines; that the plaintiff left them in the hands of…