Armistead v. Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co.

This is a suit to recover $800,000 damages for the breach of an alleged contract for the sale of coal to be delivered f. o. b. ears at the Palmer Mines, in Grundy County, Tennessee. The defendants demurred and then answered raising the defenses that the alleged contract was not completed: (1) There was no contract because there was no meeting of the minds of the parties, in that, Armistead had accepted a copy of the written offer in which "Clause 9,” pertaining to strikes, lockouts, labor troubles, etc, had been omitted by oversight. (2) The offer contained alternative propositions as to the…