Globe Refining Co. v. Landa Cotton Oil Co.

190 U.S. 540 (1903)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

A broker sold oil from D to P. The contract listed the terms of the sale and that it was buyer’s tanks f.o.b. at D’s mills. It is alleged that P would send its tank cars to D's mills and that D promptly would fill them with oil. P was under the necessity of obligating itself unconditionally to the railroad company to pay to it for the transportation of the cars in the sum of nine hundred dollars. It is alleged that D caused P to send its cars a thousand miles at a cost of a thousand dollars; that D canceled its contract on the second of September, but did not notify the P until the fourteenth, when, if P had known of the cancellation, it would have been supplying itself from other sources. P also alleged that it lost the use of its tanks for thirty days at damages of seven hundred dollars. P also alleged that it was known to D that P would have to pay additional freight in order to rearrange the destination of the various tanks and other points. P asked for three hundred and fifty dollars additional freight.