Southern Flour & Grain Co. v. Smith

C. E. Smith Company, a copartnership, sued the Southern Flour & .Grain Company for the difference between the contract price of certain beet pulp and its price on resale. From the petition it appears that the contract between the parties stipulated for the purchase of beet pulp in bags of eighty-eight pounds each. By general demurrer the defendant presented the contention that the contract sued on was void and illegal, for the reason that it was violative of section 2107. of the Civil Code (1910), requiring that “all concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs shall be in standard-weight bags or…