Jones v. Dawson Cotton Oil Co.

On September 1, 1919, the Dawson Cotton Oil Company and E. & F. G. Jones as co-partners entered into a contract in writing for the purchase by the Oil Company and sale to it by E. .& F. G. Jones of 100 tons of ‘ ‘ clean, sound, dry white Spanish peanuts ’ ’ at $120.00 per ton f. o. b. Jacob, or Campbellton, Florida, for shipment in October, November or December following, at the option of E. & F. G. Jones. It was stipulated in the contract that the peanuts were to be “loaded in cars of not less than fifteen tons to the ear. ” Mill weights to govern settlement, and terms “order notify for 90%…