Adkins

This is an appeal from the verdict of a jury and a judgment for damages for $2,000 for an alleged breach of contract with a laundry company for commissions for washing clothing.

The appellant Model Laundry Company, a corporation, was engaged in the laundry business at Santa Ana. The defendants C. C. Blanchard, Albert Blanchard, and E. W. Walker were directors of the corporation. The complaint alleged that Walker was the personal owner of Model Laundry Route No. 1 in Santa Ana, having the exclusive right to collect laundry in that district for said company, with which he had an agreement to wash all laundry collected by him from said route for a commission of twenty-seven and one-half per cent of their regular list price; that on January 15, 1920, Walker sold to respondent said laundry, route together with one Ford automobile for the sum of $1,000; that prior to the consummation of this sale the plaintiff told defendant Albert Blanchard, who was then the president of said corporation, of the proposed purchase, and that Blanchard “acquiesced, consented and approved of said sale”; that with Blanchard’s consent the plaintiff purchased said route and proceeded to ‘‘collect and deliver…