Packwood Elevator Co. v. Heisdorffer

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant-farmer appeals judgment entered in favor of plaintiff-elevator for breach of an oral contract for the sale of soybeans. We affirm.

In a telephone conversation on January 31, 1973, defendant Heisdorffer, after receiving price quotations from Dale Sullivan, plaintiff’s manager, that the elevator would pay $4.72 per bushel for soybeans picked up at his farm, agreed to sell 5900 bushels for that price. No written confirmation was ever made of this agreement.

There was no further contact between the parties until February 22 when Mr. Sullivan called and tried to…