Taylor v. Goldsmith

Plaintiffs are a copartnership engaged in the wholesale grocery business in the city of Detroit. Defendant is, as he testified, a wholesale fruit dealer in said city and at the time this controversy arose also dealt in sugar and other produce. On September 30, 1920, plaintiffs, through a broker agent named Corso, sold defendant 1,000 sacks of Standard American sugar at $13.60 per sack. The sale was evidenced in writing by a memorandum of agreement prepared in duplicate by Corso on a blank order slip of the form commonly used for such transactions which he signed as salesman and defendant as…