Seelye
Seelye v. Southern California Canning Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action brought by him against the defendant to recover damages for breach of a contract between the parties for the sale and delivery of the plaintiff’s crops of fruit covering a series of years. The said contract was entered into in April, 1914, and by its terms the plaintiff sold and the defendant bought all of the peaches of specified kinds and grades that should be raised upon the plaintiff’s orchard during the ensuing five years. The contract contained various conditions as to the care and delivery of the fruit by the plaintiff, and as to the acceptance and payment therefor by the defendant. The plaintiff’s crop of fruit for the year 1914 was delivered and paid for pursuant to the terms of the contract, but as to the crop for the year 1915 disputes arose between the parties, during which some portions of the fruit tendered by the plaintiff were rejected by the defendant as being below standard as fixed by the contract. Other portions of said fruit were accepted, but, as claimed by the defendant, subject to certain discounts from the contract prices, on account of the fruit being inferior to the grade called for…