Crescent Cotton Oil Co. v. Union Gin & Lumber Co.

Me. W. B. Swahey, Special Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by the Crescent Cotton Oil Company in the chancery court of Shelby county against the Union Cotton G-in & Lumber Company to recover the sum of $750 as damages for the breach of the following contract:

“Somerville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1913.

“This is to certify that we this day sold to the Crescent Cotton Oil Company, of Memphis, Tenn.:

*60“Five hundred (500) tons of good sound cotton seed when loaded out. To he'delivered by Feb. 1, 1914, at twenty-six dollars ($26) per ton f. o. b. cars Somerville, Tenn. To be…