Joslin v. Steffen Ice & Ice Cream Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for breach of an alleged oral contract to supply plaintiff with ice at wholesale prices to be retailed at specified retail prices during the season of 1934. Plaintiff prevailed, and defendant appeals.

The controlling facts as pleaded and developed by plaintiff’s evidence were to this effect. In 1934 plaintiff operated a small grocery in a Wichita suburb. He conceived the idea that he could retail ice profitably in connection with his grocery. To that end he made an oral contract with defendant through its…