Chickasaw Wood Products Co. v. Vail-Donaldson Co.

The plaintiff sued for $2,938.49, being the price of two carloads of cooperage, or keg heading, sold to the defendant. The main defense to the suit was that the grade or quality of the heading which the plaintiff shipped was not of the grade or quality ordered. It was admitted by the plaintiff during the trial of the case that one carload of the heading, which the defendant or its customer had refused to accept, and which amounted to $1,-470.01 of the amount sued for, was after-wards sold by the plaintiff for $1,049.30, or at a loss of only $420.71, and that the plaintiff had given the…