Hal Brown & Co. v. Dillard

ATWELL, District Judge.

The plaintiff alleges a contract involving approximately 100,000 pounds of middling basis cotton, alleged to have been' sold by the defendants to the plaintiff for delivery in November or December of 1923, at 21 cents'per pound; that the cotton was not delivered in either of those months, and that on the last day of the last month the reasonable market price of cotton so sold and bought was 34.85 cents per pound. The plaintiff sues for the difference between 21 cents -per pound .and 34.85 cents per pound, calculating that the amount of its damage on that basis would be…