Valley Mills, Division of Merchants Co. v. Southeastern Hatcheries

Appellant, Valley Mills, brought suit in the Circuit Court of Scott County, Mississippi, against appellee, Southeastern Hatcheries of Mississippi, Inc., for an account alleged to be due and unpaid for eggs sold to the appellee under the terms of a written contract. Appellee pled that it had paid the account, after having deducted a set-off, alleged in a special plea to have been due them by appellant for “baby chicks” purchased. Appellant denied the validity of the set-off upon the ground that the “baby chicks” were not purchased by them but were purchased by certain “flockowners” who were…