Thomas W. Simmons & Co. v. Northwestern Junk Co.

Plaintiff sued on five separate contracts entered into with defendant for the purchase of scrap steel, aggregating 500 gross tons of bolts and rivets, mixed, and 550 gross tons of old rectangular ship plates, % to % inches thick, two feet wide and up, and five feet long and up. Five separate causes of action were stated in the complaint. As a means of distinguishing these several different transactions, plaintiff adopted a system of numbering its orders by which it was assigned to each order, and following such number would appear the first letter in the name of the place to which the…