Fraser & Chalmers v. Echo Mining & Smelting Co.

NEILL, Associate Justice.

— The appellee, plaintiff below, claimed in its petition that appellant violated its contract in failing to deliver certain machinery which it had purchased from appellant, defendant below, for the purpose of erecting a smelter, in consequence of which it was delayed two months in the construction of such plant; and that it lost the profits it might have made by operating the smelter during the time, and the wages of certain of its employes. That the profits lost were $10,000, and the hire of its employes amounted in the aggregate to $1652, all of which was prayed for…