Canyon State Canners, Inc. v. Hooks

DE CONCINI, Justice.

Appellee, Dan T. Hooks, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, brought suit against Canyon State Canners, a corporation, appellant herein and defendant below, for breach of an alleged oral contract to sell sweet potatoes to the defendant cannery. A judgment of $800 was returned in favor of the plaintiff who had sued for $2,400. Defendant appeals to this court from that judgment and from the denial of its motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff at the time this action was commenced was a farmer engaged in growing various vegetable crops such as tomatoes, chili, sweet potatoes and…