Rio Grande Oil Co. v. Pankey

This is an appeal by Rio Grande Oil Company, a corporation, hereinafter called defendant, from a judgment in favor of O. O. Pankey and J. T. Pankey, hereinafter called plaintiffs, for damages resulting from the breach of a contract by defendant. Taking the evidence in the strongest manner in support of plaintiffs’ theory of the case, as under our oft-repeated rule we must consider it, the ultimate facts necessary for a determination of the case may be stated as follows:

From 1922 to 1926 plaintiffs had been engaged in selling gasoline, oil, and automobile accessories, in the city of Tucson,…