Lee San v. Hume Packing Co.

judgment went in the court below for The defendants, and plaintiff appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The defendants are some associated corporations, who may be designated for convenience as the Hume Packing Company. *284 On the twenty-ninth day of January, 1891, one John Quinn, as party of the first part, and the defendants, as parties of the second part, entered into a certain written contract by which Quinn agreed to employ a large number of Chinamen and pro-need from San Francisco to Alaska and engage for defendants in the business of packing salmon, and for the work done the defendants were to pay certain sums of money. There were many details in the contract which are not important here and need not be mentioned. It was stipulated that Quinn was to give a bond in the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollarss for the faithful fulfillment of his part of the contract, and also that the money to become due under it should be paid to Sun Wah Hing & Co. Quinn and the defendants were the parties to the contract; but at the bottom of the instrument, after the signatures of said parties was the following: “We accept the terms and conditions of the foregoing…