Long
Long v. Sacramento Valley Sugar Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
The plaintiff had judgment in this action based upon a complaint alleging breach of contract on the part of the defendant, in which contract it was agreed that the plaintiff should harvest for the defendant approximately 1500 acres of barley for and during the cropping season of 1930, at an agreed price of $3' per acre, the plaintiff to furnish all men and equipment for operating the harvester and thresher, the defendant to furnish sacks and twine.
The complaint sets forth that the crop for 1930 matured and was threshed; but that the plaintiff was not permitted by the defendant to harvest the crop as had been previously agreed upon. Plaintiff was awarded damages in the sum of $2,000. From this judgment the defendant appeals.
The record shows that the defendant is a corporation, and engaged in farming on a large scale in Glenn County, and had been so engaged for over twenty years prior to the year 1930. As a part of its farming operations the defendant had usually prepared, planted and harvested approximately 3,000 acres of grain annually. The plaintiff was the owner of farming machinery and equipment prepared for plowing, harrowing, seeding, harvesting and threshing grain, and…