Levin v. Fourth Street National Bank

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

These two appeals will be decided in a single opinion; the cases were tried together in the court below, were argued together here, and admittedly the questions involved are the same.

For a number of years prior to 1917, plaintiffs had been purchasing salmon from the Tallant-Grant Packing Company of Oregon, which then owed them a considerable sum of money. In that year they advanced it an additional amount of $14,000, to be credited on the price of fish to be thereafter contracted for and delivered. Subsequently they agreed to purchase a quantity of high-grade…