Greenfield Box Co. v. Independence Veneer & Box Mfg. Co.

In May or June, 1920, the defendant company purchased from the Ship Island Lumber Company, of Sanford, Miss., a certain carload of strawberry crates, said to contain 3,900 complete crates. At the time of the purchase the car was in transit. Subsequently, the plaintiff company purchased the crates from the defendant company, and an order was issued to the railroad company to divert the car to the purchaser at Greenfield, Tenn. Through error, the ear was sent to Anderson, Mo. This resulted in a delay of about two weeks before the shipment reached Greenfield." The plaintiff company refused, at…