Coast Trading Company, a Corporation v. Cudahy Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Cross-Appellant

GRANT, District Judge:

This appeal involves an action by the plaintiff grain merchant against the defendant buyer for the anticipatory repudiation of a number of contracts for the purchase of barley.

Plaintiff, a Washington corporation, is a grain merchant with headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Its customers include other grain merchandisers, grain exporters, feed mills and processors and cattle feedlots. Defendant, a Delaware corporation, has its principal office in Phoenix, Arizona, and operated a feedlot.for cattle in Sunnyside, Washington. Prom September 1973 through May 1974, the general…