Ogden v. United Bank & Trust Co.

Plaintiff, H. L. Ogden, appeals from a judgment dismissing his action against the United Bank and Trust Company and E. C. Peck, vice-president of said bank, upon the granting of a motion for a nonsuit made by defendants at the close of plaintiff’s case.

On March 10, 1925, plaintiff entered into an oral contract with Mastick and Friel, a copartnership, whereby he agreed to do the plowing, leveling, harrowing, disking and other work necessary to place a ranch situate in the county of Sacramento leased by said copartnership from the defendant bank in condition for the planting of sugar beets.…