Weil v. American Metal Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, for goods sold and delivered. Trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
The appellee recovered judgment for $1,136, upon the verdict of a jury, in a suit brought by it against appellant for damages because of the alleged failure of appellant to accept certain carloads of lead and spelter, under a contract between the parties, and this appeal has followed.
The contract rests entirely in letters and telegrams between the parties, from which we deduce, as the true interpretation and construction thereof, that appellee sold to appellant eight carloads of pig lead and eight carloads of spelter, at .specified prices, free on board cars either at St. Louis or Chicago, at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Consolidated Coal Co. v. Block & Hartman Smelting Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1894