Paducah Grain & Elevator Co. v. Marshall

Opinion op the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

On and prior to the 1st of December, 1917, appellee, a grain dealer at Kuttawa, had options on about twenty thousand bushels of corn from certain farmers of that locality. On or about that date he and appellant entered into an oral agreement by which he sold and agreed to deliver on the cars at Kuttawa to appellant forty carloads of corn, estimated to be twenty thousand bushels, at the fixed price -of a dollar and forty-six cents per bushel. Some days -subsequent to that time appellant caused to be prepared a writing supposed to contain…