MEREDITH v. JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS

No. 14168.

185 F.2d 481 (1950)

MEREDITH v. JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. M. Meredith and Thomas M. Gaffney, Atlantic, Iowa (Whitmore & Gaffney and Dalton & Dalton, all of Atlantic, Iowa, and John J. Hess, Council Bluffs, Iowa, were on the brief), for appellant.

A. V. Shotwell, Omaha, Neb., and Raymond A. Smith, Council Bluffs, Iowa, for appellee.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN, and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to recover $200,000 damages alleged to have resulted from the breach of an oral sales agency contract entered into by the John Deere Plow Company and C. P. Meredith in the fall of 1919, and, after his death in 1932, taken over by his son, M. M. Meredith, the plaintiff (appellant).

The action was brought in a District Court of the State of Iowa and removed by the defendant (appellee) to the federal District Court. The...

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