Wilson v. Corrugated Kraft Containers, Inc.

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment for defendant in an action for an alleged breach of a sales contract.

Plaintiffs are wholesale jobbers of corrugated paper products and other packaging material whose business operations are concentrated in the Southern California area. Defendant is a manufacturer of corrugated boxes. During 1944, a period of great scarcity prevailed with respect to the supply of corrugated boxes, with all indications suggesting that this shortage would be protracted. On December 15, 1944, the parties entered into a written contract which, in one of its opening clauses,…