137 Mo. App. 617 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1909
— Plaintiff sued before a justice of the peace for $21, alleged to be a balance due him from defendant on the price of one hundred and forty bushels of corn sold at forty cents a bushel. A counterclaim was preferred in two phases, in as many paragraphs of the answer, and in substance the statements regarding it are these; plaintiff had agreed to sell and deliver to defendant six hundred bushels of corn at defendant’s farm, for forty cents a bushel; pursuant to the contract had delivered one hundred and forty bushels on which defendant had paid $35, but had refused to deliver the remainder, though it had been demanded. Meanwhile the market value of corn had arisen to fifty-five cents, and on account of plaintiff’s default, defendant had been damaged in the sum of $69, for which he prayed judgment. The other phase in which the counterclaim was preferred, was an alleged agreement by plaintiff to sell defendant seventy-five or one hundred barrels
The judgment is affirmed.