Early-Foster Co. v. W. F. Klump & Co.

Early-Foster Company, a corporation, sued W. F. Klump, doing business under the firm name of W. F. Klump & Co., to recover an alleged balance of about $1,200, claimed to be due for the price of 2,000 bales of cotton linters sold by appellant to appellee, under contracts dated December 1 and December 7, 1916. Appellee denied liability, and specially answered that he had fully paid the amount due on the contracts, alleging that such payments were made upon drafts drawn by appellant with bills of lading attached through banks in New Orleans, aggregating the sum of about $70,000; that the banks,…