Cargill Elevator Co. v. D. Sullivan & Co.

Taylor, C.

Both plaintiff and defendant are corporations. Plaintiff is engaged in the business of buying and selling grain on the Duluth board of trade and in shipping grain by boat over the Great Lakes. Defendant is engaged in the business of securing vessels for shippers and cargoes for vessels. It owns three vessels, but its business .includes securing other vessels for shippers and cargoes for other vessels. The transactions out of which this controversy arose were conducted on the part of plaintiff by Harley L. Flood and on the part of defendant by Alastair Guthrie. On November 15, 1924,…