Meyer
Meyer v. Sullivan
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Waste, J.
This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment in the sum of $2,613.30, entered in favor of plaintiffs for damages alleged to have been suffered by reason of the breach of defendants to deliver a cargo of wheat to plaintiffs at Seattle during the month of September, 1914. .
After negotiations between the parties looking to the purchase and sale of a quantity of wheat, the plaintiffs wrote to defendants two letters, which were as follows:
The letters were duly received by the defendants, who thereupon indorsed their approval upon each of the letters as above appears, and each of .the letters, containing the approval of the defendants indorsed thereon, was returned to and duly received by plaintiffs. On the respective dates of the letters, plaintiffs engaged space from the management of the Kosmos line, for the shipment of the wheat referred to, in the steamer of that company, leaving Seattle in September. This fact was not communicated' to defendants by plaintiffs, but on July 20th, defendants were directly informed by the Kosmos line that the wheat was to be taken on board the steamer “Karnab,” leaving Seattle in September, 1914. Plaintiffs at no time furnished, or…