Henderson v. United States Sheet & Window Glass Co.

The plaintiff sued for a balance due on the price of 600 tons of chip box window glass cullet, sold to the defendant. Window glass cullet is the refuse from trimmihg sheets of glass in the factory. The' trimmings, or chips of glass, are thrown into a box called the “chip box” — hence the term “chip box cullet.” It is afterwards put through a crusher and remeltcd and made into window glass. Every window glass factory, therefore, has an accumulation of cullet. The Continental Glass Company, at Cedar Grove, near Shreveport, had a pile exceeding 600 tons of chip box cullet, when the plant was…