Planters' Cotton Oil Co. v. Godwin-Humphreys Co.

This suit was filed by the ap-pellee against the appellant in September, 1916. It appears that both parties are private corporations. The original petition is not in the transcript, and we have no means of determining the character of the suit except by the amended pleadings subsequently filed.

On March 4, 1919, the appellee filed an amended original petition, which contains several counts, and the case was tried upon that petition. The first count was a common-law action to recover damages for breach of a contract. It was alleged, in substance, that in September, 1915, the plaintiff and the…