Houston Packing Company v. Spivey

COLLINGS, Justice.

W. T. Spivey brought suit against Houston Packing Company, seeking to recover for alleged lost profits arising out of plaintiff’s failure to earn profit in raising certain broiler chickens fed defendant’s feed. Plaintiff’s cause of action was based on a letter and oral statements on the part of one John L. Cook, alleged to be the agent of the defendant, said writing and oral statements being to the effect, that if plaintiff attended to the chickens in a husbandly manner and to the best of his ability, said agent guaranteed plaintiff that he would not lose money on the 3,200…