A. B. Fosseen & Co. v. Kennewick Supply & Storage Co.

The respondent, A. B. Posseen & Company, is a wholesale jobber, engaged, as part of its business, in selling to retail dealers arsenate of lead. The appellant is a retail dealer in the same article. In the present action, the respondent sought to recover upon a balance of an account for lead sold and delivered by it to the appellant. The appellant defended by counter-claim. In substance, it alleged that, in the spring of the year 1923, there was a shortage in the supply of arsenate of lead, and that the respondent was having difficulty in obtaining a sufficient quantity of lead to accommodate…