Wohlschlegel v. Holst

McQUADE, Justice.

This is an action for damages for breach of contract. Plaintiff-respondent seeks to recover the purchase price of a pipeline milking machine installed on defendant-appellant’s dairy farm.

The appellant telephoned respondent during the latter part of August, 1958. He informed respondent he wished to install a new milkline — a device by which milk is taken from dairy cows by mechanical means and conducted to containers without intervention of human hands. The parties disagree as to what was said in this telephone conversation. The appellant maintains he specified “a Chore Boy…