Bradstreet v. Baker

This is an action of covenant broken. The covenant, if valid, is a covenant by which the de fendants bound themselves to receive from the plaintiffs, dealers in ice, and copartners under the firm of the Centennial Ice Company, at Pittston, Maine, between June 1, 1878, and October 1, 1878, five thousand tons of ice, and to pay them for it at the rate of one and one half dollars per ton, and to pay in full in cash at said rate for all the ice remaining unshipped October 1, 1878, the ice so remaining to be the property of the plaintiffs. The defendants made default by not receiving, though the…