Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Turner

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District submits the following statement and questions:

“The appellee, J. T. Turner, was a cotton buyer doing business at Jefferson, Texas. On February 7, 1899, he was at Linden, Texas, and while there Nelson and Bogers, who owned seventy bales- of cotton located in a warehouse at Jefferson, offered to sell him their cotton at $5.75 per hundred pounds. Turner was to return to Jefferson that day, and agreed with them that when he got there and saw the market quotations he would, if the market justified him in doing so, take…