Tillis v. Western Fruit Growers, Inc.

Plaintiff and respondent instituted this action to recover damages against defendant and appellant corporation for breach of contract respecting the sale of respondent’s crop of oranges. The case was tried without a jury and resulted in a judgment for respondent in the sum of $637.93, from which judgment defendant has appealed.

During the first part of November, 1937, respondent, an orange grower, owned about five acres of full-bearing trees on which there was growing a crop of Washington navel oranges. Both respondent and appellant corporation (which corporation was engaged in buying,…