Farmers Elevator Service Co. v. Hogan

REEVES, District Judge.

The defendants seek a more definite statement on the specific ground that there are no averments of the complaint showing that the plaintiff has sustained damages because of an alleged breach of the several shipping contracts enumerated in the several counts of the complaint. In the alternative, the defendants ask that the complaint be dismissed for the reason that the facts as alleged are insufficient to constitute a cause of action.

It is charged by the plaintiff that at different dates and for different products or commodities it made oral purchases of the defendants…