86 Miss. 60 | Miss. | 1905
delivered the opinion of the court.
Learned counsel for appellee in this court practically abandoned all grounds urged in support of the demurrer to the amended declaration except this ground: That it was necessary that there should he separate contracts to show in what quantities fuel oil was to he delivered to each of the corporations buying, and showing at what times such oil was to he delivered. This is an inaccurate view of the contract. It was simply impossible to have stated in any contract exactly how many barrels of oil any one of the corporations would have needed, or the times at which the oil needed should he delivered. This was not practically determinable, and it would have been wholly impossible to have put any fixed number of barrels in the contract or any stated dates for their delivery. What the agreement stipulated was that appellant and the other corporations
Judgment reversed, demurrer overruled, and cause remanded.