Walnut Ridge Mercantile Co. v. Cohn
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court; Frederick D. Fulkerson, Judg'e; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. I. Less was the vice-president and general manager of the Walnut Ridge Mercantile Company, a corporation doing business ip Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. In 1903, acting for the Mercantile Company, he made a contract for the sale of a certain quantity of middling cotton to R. Cohn, of Memphis, Tenn., at 9cents per pound.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court; Frederick D. Fulkerson, Judg'e; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. I. Less was the vice-president and general manager of the Walnut Ridge Mercantile Company, a corporation doing business ip Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. In 1903, acting for the Mercantile Company, he made a contract for the sale of a certain quantity of middling cotton to R. Cohn, of Memphis, Tenn., at 9cents per pound. The Mercantile Company afterwards delivered to Cohn 34 bales of cotton, but refused to deliver more. Cohn brought this action against the Mercantile Company to recover damages for breach of…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by the Walnut Ridge Mercantile Company from a judgment rendered against it for the sum of $631.62 in favor of R. Cohn for failure to carry out a contract for the sale of 100 bales of cotton.
The defendant reserved exceptions to a number of instructions given by the presiding judge to the jury on the trial, but these exceptions were in gross, and not to any specific instruction, as will be seen by reference to the statement of facts, where the exceptions are copied. Such a general exception is only available where the charge is erroneous…
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