Peterkin v. Randolph Marketing Co.

In this action a judgment was entered upon the verdict of a jury for $1,740.60 in favor of plaintiff, from which defendant appeals.

Plaintiff sues for himself and as assignee of one Whiting, both of whom were owners of orange groves upon which, in the fall of 1917, there were crops of fruit ready for market. Defendant was a corporation engaged in the marketing of such fruit. The claims of plaintiff and his assignor, as appears from the complaint, are that they delivered their fruit to defendant for shipment upon an agreement by the latter whereby it guaranteed a price, f. o. b. at Anaheim, of…