Edward Rose Co. v. Gatti-Goodyear Co.
Edward Rose Co. v. Gatti-Goodyear Co.
Opinion of the Court
The' Gatti-Goodyear Company, a corporation, brought suit against Edward Bose Company, a corporation, on the following contract:
“ Greenville, S. C., December 31, 1919.
“ We confirm having sold you the following: Quantity: About 30,000 pounds monthly Dirty Dust House Fly, quantity estimated but not guaranteed, but to include all that we will accumulate during 1920. Price: l-% cent per pound. F. o. b. shipping point of the Mills or Greenville, S. C. Terms: Net cash thirty days. Shipment: Monthly as accumulated. Bemarks: The quality of this stock is to be just as produced by the mills.
(Signed) “ The Chester Goodyear Co., per G. M. Goodyear, Treas.
“Accepted:
“Edward Bose Co.
“ C. H. McMillian.”
The petition alleges that on November 29, 1920, this contract was assigned by Chester M. Goodyear Company to Joseph Gatti, and that on December 7, 1920, Joseph Gatti assigned it to Gatti-Goodyear Company, the plaintiff in this case. The petition shows that on December 6, 1920, the plaintiff shipped to the defendant 22,129 pounds of the commodity contracted for, and that this shipment was refused by the defendant, and that the contract-price thereof was $359.59, for which sum plaintiff sues. The petition further alleges that in December, 1920, plaintiff had on hand 14,950 pounds of the same commodity which it sought to ship and deliver to the defendant, but which the defendant refused to allow the plaintiff to ship, and that this refusal was a breach of the contract and damaged the plaintiff in an amount equal to the difference between the contract-price of the goods and the market price, to wit $205.56, for which additional amount suit is brought. The petition alleges that the accumulations sued for were from the same mills as previously accumulated from, and none other, by Chester M. Good
It follows that the petition did not set out a cause of action,’ and that the court erred in overruling the general demurrer.
Judgment reversed.
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