Carstens Packing Co. v. Miller

SHINN, J., pro tem.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for damages resulting from an alleged breach of contract to purchase 138,000 pounds of hog hair. The contract was in the form of correspondence between plaintiff, operator of packing houses at Tacoma and Seattle, and defendant, a processor at Los Angeles of curled hair. This correspondence was initiated by defendant personally in February, 1929, and concluded by R. S. Braun, an employee of defendant, in June of the same year.

Appellant’s first contention is that he did not authorize or have knowledge of Braun’s purchase of the goods and that…