Gogebic Auto Co. v. Gogebic County Board of Road Commissioners

An unusually severe blizzard late in January of 1938 made it necessary for defendant board of county road commissioners to obtain a snowplow immediately. They wanted an FWD four-wbeel-drive truck and snowplow combination and called defendant Klauer Manufacturing Company of Dubuque, Iowa, who was engaged in manufacturing Snogo snowplows. Klauer Company learned that an FWD truck was not immediately available, called Osbkosb Motor Truck, Inc., at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and placed an order for one of its four-wbeel-drive trucks to be delivered in Dubuque. Tbe road commission was advised that a…