Thompson v. Miller

This is an action to recover damages for breach of contract relating to the manufacture and sale of two simple unpatented articles known as hitch pins and lynch pins. The plaintiff, Robert G. Thompson, primarily a salesman, having learned of the need and possible market for a pin or device for use in connecting certain farm implements, induced the defendant Don L. Miller to enter into a written agreement, later verbally modified, pursuant to which the pins were manufactured by Miller and sold by Thompson over a period of years.

The original contract was embodied in Exhibit “A”, a letter from…