Watkins v. W. E. Neiler Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $531.25, The case was tried before Molyneaux, J., who made findings and ordered judgment for $31.25 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying his motion to amend the findings or for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
In early August, 1914, plaintiff, a banker from Oklahoma, was on an outing at Osakis, this state. On account of the European war, just begun, he surmised there would be a great rise in food products. He ascertained that defendant, a corporation, was a broker on the Minneapolis and Chicago boards of trade, and on August 13, 1914, telephoned it to buy for his account 250 barrels of pork for September delivery. The telephone message was, on the next day, followed by a letter with inclosed *344check to defendant. The letter reads: “Enclosed find ck. for $1000 for pork order of last night by phone. I…
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