Independent Grain Dealers Marketing Ass'n v. Beard

Cureton, Judge:

*310In this breach of contract action, Independent Grain Dealers Association, Inc. (Independent) appeals from a circuit court order confirming a master’s report which concluded that respondent Floyd Beard was justified in abandoning the contract. We disagree with the trial court and reverse.

The parties entered into an oral contract in July 1980 which provided that Independent would purchase 30,000 bushels of corn from Beard at a price of $3.20 per bushel.1 Delivery of the corn was to be made to a third party, Coastal Builders, trading as Glennville Elevators, Inc., in Glennville,…