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Tennell v. Esteve Cotton Co.

546 S.W.2d 346, 21 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (West) 978, 1976 Tex. App. LEXIS 3518
CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas
DecidedDecember 28, 1976
Docket8695
StatusPublished
Cited by23 cases

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Tennell v. Esteve Cotton Co., 546 S.W.2d 346, 21 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (West) 978, 1976 Tex. App. LEXIS 3518 (Tex. Ct. App. 1976).

Opinion

REYNOLDS, Justice.

A cotton merchandising company brought this suit to recover from a cotton grower the difference between the market price and the contract price of undelivered cotton. The trial court, calculating the contract price in lieu of the disregarded jury finding thereof, rendered judgment on the balance of the verdict, decreeing that the cotton company recover the market-contract price differential for the undelivered pounds of the greatest number of bales the jury found would not be unreasonably disproportionate to the number estimated to be delivered under the contract. Reformed to provide for recovery on the entire production contracted and for statutory interest and, as reformed, affirmed.

By written contract of 5 April 1973, H. S. Tennell, 1 as seller, and C. Young, 2 as buyer and commission agent for Gant Cooley Cotton Co., Inc., provided for the purchase and sale of Tennell’s “entire production of lint cotton for the 1973-74 cotton harvesting season from” 120 acres of Farm No. D-30 in Hale County, Texas, estimated to be 100 bales. On 20 April 1973, Gant Cooley assigned to appellee Esteve Cotton Company, a Dallas-based cotton merchandising company engaged in selling cotton to be produced in the future to cotton mills, the contract, which was prepared on a typewritten form with spaces for completion and contains the following information reproduced verbatim:

PURCHASE AND ALES AGREEMENT

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