Lucas E. Moore Stave Co. v. Kennedy

The Lucas E. Moore Stave Company is a corporation with headquarters in New Orleans, La., and a branch office in Columbus, Miss., engaged in the business of producing and purchasing staves for both export and domestic trade on a rather extensive scale. C. M. and W. M. Kennedy compose the partnership known as C. M. Kennedy & Bro., who were also engaged in the production of staves, but their operations were less extensive than that of the Lucas E. Moore Stave Company. For the sake of brevity these two concerns will be hereinafter referred to as the Stave Company on the one part, and Kennedy.…