Atkinson v. Allen

The question presented by this récord is whether in an action involving the rights of the parties to the contract hereinafter set forth, it was proper to prove the existence of a custom among the persons engaged in the business of packing pork in the city of Louisville, and at two or three other points in the State of Kentucky, that when, under such a contract, the packers themselves slaughtered the hogs, they were entitled, to the exclusion of the other contracting party, to the profits on the sale of the bristles, gut fat and grease from the hogs packed.

■'The contract was as follows: “…