Yarbrough v. Alston

Prior to June, 1943, appellant Yarbrough, who operated as the 'Clarksville Produce Company, at Clarksville, Arkansas, had made an agreement with Brown & Loe, a brokerage firm in Kansas City, Missouri, to handle Irish potatoes for him in carload lots during the then current shipping season. Soon after this arrangement was made appellee, Ras Alston, who was in similar business at Ozark, Arkansas, and Yarbrough entered into a verbal agreement by which Yarbrough was to take potatoes in carload lots from Alston and consign them, with those of‘himself, to the Kansas City firm of Brown & Loe. D. C.…