Streff
Streff v. Gold Medal Creamery Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tuttle, J.
This is an action upon a written contract to recover $1,780.30 alleged to be due on account of 4,685 gallons of milk sold defendant. Judgment went for plaintiff in the sum of $1,764.72, and this appeal is prosecuted therefrom.
The complaint is in the ordinary form for milk sold and delivered between the dates of October 1, 1924, and November 8, 1924. The answer denies the allegations, and then proceeds, in fourteen pages, to set up three counterclaims. The first of these sets up an express and agreed warranty as to the quality of the milk sold. It is alleged that between June 1, 1924, and November 8, 1924, plaintiff delivered milk to defendant which was not in accord with the terms of said warranty, and that defendant was thereby damaged in the sum of $1,929.81. The second counterclaim is based upon a breach of the contract in reference to the delivery by plaintiff of the names of certain customers to defendant. It is stated that plaintiff refused to deliver such names, and that he continued to solicit the business of said customers after the sale of the goodwill of the business to defendant. Eighteen hundred dollars is asked on account of this item. The third counterclaim is in…