Reid v. Alaska Packing Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clatsop: Thomas A. McBride, Judge. This is an action by Reid, Murdoch & Co., a corporation, against the Alaska Fishermen’s Packing Co., also a corporation, to recover damages for a breach by the defendant of an alleged contract to sell and deliver to the plaintiff 2,500 cases of canned salmon. The plaintiff is engaged in buying and selling salmon, with its place of business in Chicago, and the defendant in packing salmon in Alaska for sale.
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From Clatsop: Thomas A. McBride, Judge. This is an action by Reid, Murdoch & Co., a corporation, against the Alaska Fishermen’s Packing Co., also a corporation, to recover damages for a breach by the defendant of an alleged contract to sell and deliver to the plaintiff 2,500 cases of canned salmon. The plaintiff is engaged in buying and selling salmon, with its place of business in Chicago, and the defendant in packing salmon in Alaska for sale. In March, 1899, the defendant employed C. M. Webber & Co., brokers of Chicago, to act as its agent or broker in selling its salmon in Illinois and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. We think that the evidence was competent as to the statements made by the officers of the defendant, when the memorandum was delivered to them by Patton, to the effect that they would not ratify or confirm the contract because the defendant did not pack or deal in salmon of the kind specified therein. It is admitted that Webber & Co. exceeded their authority in making the contract of warranty as to the quality of fish. In order to render the defendant liable thereon, it was necessary, therefore, for the plaintiff to show that it had ratified the contract, either in express teyms or by…
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