O'Connell Ranch Co. v. Great Falls Livestock Commission Co.

MR. JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, O’Connell Ranch Company, a corporation, from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict.

The Facts: During the week of the 1954 Northern Montana state fair at Great Falls, Montana, teenage Brian Thomas O’Connell, hereinafter called Tom O’Connell, there met Mr. *25Ralph. King, the president and manager of the defendant, Great Falls Livestock Commission Company, at which time Tom informed Mr. King that he and his brother had a couple hundred head of cattle which they desired to sell prior to leaving for school that fall.

On that occasion Tom…