Jones v. Lanier

SAYRE, J.—(1) This was an action by appellant against appellee to recover damages for the alleged breach of an agreement by which appellee assumed to take and pay for the entire output of appellant’s Baker’s Creek mine for nine months at a stipulated price per ton, subject to appellant’s coal “proving entirely satisfactory” to appellee. The complaint alleged that paintiff expended large sums of money in opening his mine and in the purchase of machinery and mules wherewith to carry out his contract, and did mine and furnish to defendant under the contract a large quantity of coal which was…