Lee v. Gorman Packing Corporation

This action was instituted to recover for the breach of a contract to brail a fish trap in Alaska. The allegations of appellant’s complaint are to the effect that appellant, the owner of a fish trap in Alaska, contracted with Gorman & Company to fish the trap during the season of 1926. The option on the 1927 catch, included in the contract covering 1926, was assigned to the respondent. A copy of each of the contracts is annexed to, and made a part of, the complaint. Under § 4 of the second contract, the respondent

“ . . . agrees to brail and empty said trap not less than once during each and…