California Canning Peach Growers v. Harris

BUCK (G. F.), J., pro tem.

Plaintiff is a nonprofit cooperative marketing association, organized in 1921 under the laws of the state of California. From the beginning the defendant John Harris was a member of the association and, with his fellow-members, had signed a marketing agreement with the association whereby he sold to the association, to be marketed for the benefit of himself, all of the peaches to be grown by him on a twenty-acre orchard for the next fourteen years.

During the years 1922 and 1923 defendant’s yearly crop was delivered and marketed under the terms of the marketing…