Snyder v. Holt Manufacturing Co.

— The action is for damages, alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the defective construction of a combined harvester manufactured and sold to the plaintiff and one Kniebes by the defendant corporation. The plaintiff and said Kniebes were farmers near Crows Landing, in Stanislaus County, in the spring of 1896. By agreement between them, the plaintiff went to Stockton the latter part of April of that year, to make arrangements for a harvester to be used by them. The defendant was at that time, and for many years prior thereto had been, engaged in manufacturing and…