Romey v. Rock County Sugar Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county: Geobge GRimm, Circuit Judge. Action to recover the contract purchase price of sugar beets and compensation for pitting same. January 18, 1911, the plaintiff entered into a written agreement with the defendant to plant, cultivate, and harvest in good and workmanlike manner two or more acres of sugar beets and deliver the same to the defendant, who was to furnish seed and give instructions for doing the work.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county: Geobge GRimm, Circuit Judge. Action to recover the contract purchase price of sugar beets and compensation for pitting same. January 18, 1911, the plaintiff entered into a written agreement with the defendant to plant, cultivate, and harvest in good and workmanlike manner two or more acres of sugar beets and deliver the same to the defendant, who was to furnish seed and give instructions for doing the work. The agreement provided that “the title to said seed and to the crop of beets when the same begin to grow shall be and remain in…
1Opinion of the CourtWin snow, C. J.
The case is. simple. The title to the beets was in the defendant. The plaintiff cultivated and harvested them properly and would have delivered them had the defendant been able to obtain cars to transport them. While waiting for cars the beets were lying in small piles in the field and were frozen. This was not the plaintiff’s fault. It seems also that freezing does not materially harm them if they are not allowed to thaw out. While in this condition, the parties agreed that plaintiff should pile them in two large piles' and cover them, at the price of forty cents -p.er ton. This was called…
2Cited by1 opinion
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