Swift & Co. v. Duckett

JACKSON, ,J.

This suit was instituted on November 23, 1926, in the district court of Swisher county, Tex., by S. A. Duckett, plaintiff, against Swift & Co., a corporation, defendant, to recover the sum of $1,444.03, with interest thereon, as damages for the alleged breach by the defendant of its contract with plaintiff.

The plaintiff alleges that in the fall of 1925 he and the defendant, acting through its duly authorized agent and local manager, Smith, entered into an oral contract, by the terms of which the plaintiff was to purchase, with his own money, at prices furnished by the defendant,…