Becker
Becker v. Turpin
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
This appeal is from a judgment in the plaintiff’s favor in an action to recover a balance due upon the contract price of certain Malaga grapes sold and delivered by the plaintiff during the season of 1919. The contract for the sale and delivery of said grapes was made by the plaintiff with the defendant Turpin, doing business under the name of Golden Gate Packing Company, on the tenth day of July, 1919, and was in the usual form of an executory contract between the grower and buyer for the delivery thereafter of the grower’s entire crop of grapes for the year 1919, at the agreed price of sixty dollars per ton, payable upon delivery. Shortly after the making of this contract and about the time deliveries of grapes began to be made, the defendant Turpin and the defendant R. Krasnow & Sons, Inc., entered into what is denominated by the parties thereto as a joint account agreement, which was presently put in writing and which reads as follows;
“Joint Account Agreement
“This agreement is entered into by and between K. Krasnow, representing B. Krasnow & Sons,. Inc., hereinafter known as the first party, and C. B. Turpin, doing business as the Golden Gate Packing Co., hereinafter known…