Sealy Mattress Company v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

This litigation arose over an alleged contract between appellant and appellee for the purchase and sale of a product called cotton linters, which is the lint taken from cotton seed. Appellee sued appellant to recover the sum of $565.20 on account for the price of twenty-one bales of linters, and appellant brought another action against appellee to recover damages for alleged violation of a contract for the sale of 600 bales of linters. The complaint in each case was answered, and the two suits w;ere consolidated and tried together, resulting in a verdict in favor of appellee for the sum of…