Cauffiel MacHinery Co. v. Eastern Steel & Metal Co.

Appellant Cauffiel Machinery Company filed suit in Lucas County Common Pleas Court on January 7,? 1976, to collect'oh a promissory nóte executed in 1965 by appellee Eastern Steel & Metal Company in final payment for a purchase of machinery from Cauffiel. Eastern entered a general denial and raised the defenses of the statute of limitations and res judicata. It (counterclaimed for a breach of warranty of the underlying sales contract. The trial court found that Cauffiel had breached the sales contract, and held that the. conduct of both parties indicated an agreement to accept Eastern’s,…