Pet Milk Co. v. Boland

COLLET, Circuit Judge.

This action is to recover on quantum meruit for a balance alleged to be due ap-pellee [plaintiff] for the construction of a sewer line for appellant [defendant] at the latter’s Siloam Springs, Arkansas, plant. The controversy in the trial court and about which this appeal is concerned revolves around the question of whether a certain written “Purchase Order” submitted to plaintiff and signed by his representative, his son, represented the agreement between the parties or whether an oral agreement, varying in one important respect from the written purchase order,…