Southern Cotton-Oil Co. v. Heflin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. This suit was instituted in the district court of Waller county, Tex., on April 31, 1895, from which it was removed to the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Texas, sitting at Galveston, in August, 1895. The plaintiff in error was a corporation chartered in the state of New Jersey, and owning a cotton-seed oil mill situated at Houston, Tex., at which mill it made the…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. This suit was instituted in the district court of Waller county, Tex., on April 31, 1895, from which it was removed to the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Texas, sitting at Galveston, in August, 1895. The plaintiff in error was a corporation chartered in the state of New Jersey, and owning a cotton-seed oil mill situated at Houston, Tex., at which mill it made the products of cotton seed from year to year. This was a suit instituted against the defendant in error upon the following…
1Opinion of the CourtShelby, Circuit Judge
This is a suit for damages for breach of a contract. The material question in the case relates to the measure of damages. By the contract dated April 12, 1894, the Southern Cotton-Oil Company, the plaintiff in error, sold to E. L. Heflin, the defendant in error, all the prime cotton-seed cake and meal made at the mill of the former at Houston, Tex., during the season beginning on September 1, 1894, and ending on March 31, 1895, at $18 a ton of 2,000 pounds, free on board cars at Houston. The plaintiff guarantied a minimum quantity of 6,000 tons, and Heflin was not required to receive more…
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- Smoot's CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
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