Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. v. Benton County Creamery Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Benton District Court. — Hon. G. W. Burn-ham, Judge. Action for purchase price of machinery contracted for, and the establishment of a mechanic’s lien. The answer put in issue the allegations of the petition, and pleaded a counterclaim. A balance of $610.50 was found due plaintiff, and a decree entered accordingly. Both parties appeal, that of plaintiff being first perfected.—
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
Prior to March 4, 1899, the Benton County ■Creamery Company, a copartnership composed of Chester A. Hodge and L. C. Eggleston, was engaged in establishing ;a creamery at Yin ton. A building for that purpose was nearly completed. A canvass had been made, and oral agreements entered into with farmers, by whom the milk •of ten or twelve hundred cows had been pledged on condition that, beginning May 1st, it should be taken at the farms, and, after the separation" of the butter fat therefrom, the skim milk returned, and the expenses incident to making the butter, shipping, and marketing it paid,…
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