Pacific Coast Coal Co. v. Lindsay Cooperative Citrus Ass'n

In this action, the plaintiff seeks to hold the defendant as an acceptor of a bill of exchange. The defendant is engaged in conducting a packing-house for oranges and other citrus fruits at Lindsay, California. The plaintiff is engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling briquets or solid fuel for orchard heaters, and in the fall of 1925 one C. A. Bishop was its agent in the vicinity of Liudsay. At the same time, in the same vicinity, one J. W. Irwin, as the agent of the Phillips Orchard Heater Company, was selling orchard heaters designed to use solid fuel. Because of their common…