Southern Brass & Iron Co. v. Exeter Mach. Works

This suit is brought to recover damages for breach of implied warranty of the quality and capacity of a hoisting engine and attachments bought by the complainant from the Exeter Machine Works for the East Tennessee Iron & Coal Company.

The facts necessary to be stated are as follows: About August 6,1900, the East Tennessee Iron & Coal Company ordered from the complainant a double cylinder, single-drum hoisting engine; the drum to be large enough to hold 3,200 feet of %-inch wire rope, and the engine of sufficient capacity and power to haul 15 empty coal cars, weighing 12,000 pounds, up a…