Holmes v. Hilliard

The single question which exception raises is whether, on default of the principal defendant, in this action of debt for taxes, the alleged trustee was legally holden.

The defendant entered into a written contract that, in the year 1930, he would raise a crop of sweet corn, and sell and deliver to the trustee, so much thereof as should have the approval of the latter as to quality. The trustee agreed to pay the defendant a stipulated price “for all his corn so received . . . within sixty days from the close of the canning season.”

One day, when a field man employed by the trustee was at…