Holdridge v. Southwest Cotton Co.

This is an action for damages for breach of contract. Holdridge is only the nominal plaintiff, the real, plaintiff being Gr. P. Nevitt, who, during all the times herein referred to, was the attorney for the defendant-appellee. He is not suing for professional services, however, but for $90,000 damages he alleges he sustained by reason of defendant’s failure to accept and pay for, upon tender, in accordance with its agreement, certain Pima cotton crops grown by him in the Salt Eiver Valley during the season of 1920-21.

The defendant’s answer, among other defenses, raised the question of the…