Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n v. Rowan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one to recover damages for breach of a marketing agreement and to enjoin the defendant from disposing of wheat then on hand. The defense was that the contract had been procured through the fraudulent representations of plaintiff’s agent. The defendant prevailed, and plaintiff appeals.

The representations of which the defendant complained consisted of statements by plaintiff’s agent, William Leslie, that the plaintiff had money, borrowed from the War Finance Corporation, for the purpose of loaning it to its members to pay their…