Tennessee River, etc., Co. v. Leeds

Snodgrass, Oh. J.

The plaintiff in error ordered a cast-iron piston head of Leeds & Co., manufacturers, at New Orleans, for use in a sixty-inch Tyler press which the Tennessee River Co. was using in Chattanooga, to replace one which it had just broken. Leeds & Co. had made the one which broke, and plaintiff in error ordered the second of them from the same pattern, with direction to be made good and strong. The casting was clone, and was apparently perfect. It was forwarded to plaintiff in error, and was received and used by it for two or three months, when it broke in two as the other had…