Emerson v. Pacific Coast & Norway Packing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $6,849.33" damages, including loss of prospective profits, for breach of a contract by which plaintiffs were appointed for a definite term exclusive agents, to sell the product of defendant upon commission. The case was tried' before Willard R. Cray, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for $3,000. From an order, Simpson, J., denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
The plaintiffs and respondents were brokers in groceries, operating between the producers or manufacturers and the wholesale grocers. They had offices at various places, in this state and elsewhere, from which they sold goods, both by personal solicitation and correspondence. The defendant and appellant, a Minnesota corporation,, with its principal office in Minneapolis, had just engaged in the business of catching and packing fish, especially salmon, on the coast of Alaska, and shipping the same into the United States to be sold. This, product was handled exclusively by the grocery trade.…
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