Varley & Co. v. Oberg

Taylor, C.

Plaintiff is engaged in the business of buying potatoes and shipping them to market. Defendant owns two potato warehouses at Quamba in Kanabec county and buys potatoes and other farm products from the growers. On August 4, 1919, plaintiff and defendant made a contract by which defendant rented one of these warehouses to plaintiff for the season of 1919 and 1920, and agreed to buy potatoes for plaintiff and load them for shipment until all the potatoes had been marketed, and plaintiff agreed to pay defendant the lump sum of $1,200 for the rent of the building and for defendant’s…