Willibald Schaefer Co. v. Blanton Co.

BENNICK, Judge.

This is an action for damages for breach •of contract. Suit was instituted in September, 1942, but by reason of the nonaction of the-parties was not brought to trial •until February, 1952.

Plaintiff, Willibald Schaefer Company, .and defendant, the Blanton Company, are local corporations engaged in the business of buying, selling, and refining both vegetable and animal oils. A third corporation engaged in the same general business is the Western Vegetable Oils Company, which has its place of business in San Francisco, 'California. • , .

On September 2&, 1941, plaintiff entered…