Curtis v. Boston Ice Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of an agreement in writing in failing to supply to the Boston Condensed Milk Company, whose trustees in bankruptcy were the plaintiffs, ice needed for its business during the summer of the year 1913 and the year 1914. Writ dated December 18, 1915. In the Superior Court, the action was referred to an auditor and, upon the coming in of his report, was tried before Fox, J. The letter by the president of the milk company to the president of the defendant,…
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Contract for breach of an agreement in writing in failing to supply to the Boston Condensed Milk Company, whose trustees in bankruptcy were the plaintiffs, ice needed for its business during the summer of the year 1913 and the year 1914. Writ dated December 18, 1915. In the Superior Court, the action was referred to an auditor and, upon the coming in of his report, was tried before Fox, J. The letter by the president of the milk company to the president of the defendant, dated July 19, 1913, referred to in the opinion, was as follows: “I hereby give you notice that we are having great…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The Boston Dairy Company on May 3, 1911, entered into a contract with the defendant, the Boston Ice Company, for the term of five years, whereby the dairy company, during said term, agreed to sell and the ice company to purchase upon fully defined terms and conditions, all the ice harvested by the dairy company into its ice house in the town of Littleton beyond that needed for use in its own milk business. The contract also bound the dairy company to make every effort to cut ice on said pond, and to fill its ice house therewith, but limited its obligation to sell its surplus ice to an amount…
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