Andreas & Son v. Hempy

When this action was commenced on September 8, 1932, the plaintiff was, and for a number of years prior thereto had been engaged in conducting a grain elevator at Lisbon, Iowa, and the defendant was engaged in farming in Jones County, Iowa. On May 22, 1931, he had over 3,000 bushels of corn in his cribs on the farm. At that time he made an agreement with plaintiff for the storage and sale of about 2,000 bushels of this corn in plaintiff’s elevator at Lisbon, Iowa. Plaintiff alleges that at the time the contract was entered into no definite time for the sale of the corn was fixed, and…