Clayton
Clayton v. Randolph Marketing Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sturtevant, J.
The plaintiffs sued the defendant for an accounting; the trial court awarded the plaintiffs a judgment for $4,882.13, and the defendant has appealed. The trial court tried the case sitting without a jury, and made findings in which it found that the defendant was a corporation; that on September 20, 1918, the plaintiffs and defendant entered into a written contract which is fully set forth in plaintiffs’ complaint; that the plaintiffs have fully performed said contract; that in doing so the plaintiffs delivered to the defendant to be marketed sixty-five carloads and some broken lots of lettuce; that the defendant received the produce and sold the same for $69,470.98 on board the cars at the place of sale; that the defendant paid freight and expressage in the sum of $15,736.63; that the defendant paid expressage for sundry items in the sum of $65.75; demurrage, $32.36; refrigeration, $.175; taxes,. $237.30; and that the net sale price on board the ears at point of delivery was $53,223.94. The court also found that the defendant had advanced to the plaintiffs $37,697.03, and that it was entitled to a commission of twenty per cent on the net sales or in the sum of $10,644.79.…