Sterling v. Gregory

Action for damages for breach of contract. The plaintiff was the owner of certain orange groves in San Bernardino County, known as the “Upper Orchard,” and alleges an agreement with' defendant, by the terms of which the latter agreed to buy all the oranges grown on this orchard at the price of one and one quarter cents per pound. After the contract was partly executed, the defendant refused to accept or pay for any more fruit, and the plaintiff, after selling the remaining fruit for less than the contract price, brings this action to recover the difference. The answer denies that the contract…