Alpha Portland Cement Co. v. Oliver

This is a suit to recover damages for the breach of a contract to purchase a stipulated quantity of cement, and also to recover the value of cement furnished by the complaint to defendant prior to the breach.

On the 27th day of February, 1907, after considerable correspondence had between them, the Alpha Portland Cement Company and William J. Oliver entered into a contract whereby the la! ter undertook to purchase from the former a minimum quantity of 54,000 barrels of ce-ent, at $1.40 per barrel f. o. b. cars at the mills of the cement company, “shipments to be made as ordered during the…