CAL. LETTUCE GROWERS v. UNION SUGAR CO.

Docket No. L.A. 23650.

45 Cal.2d 474 (1955)

289 P.2d 785

CALIFORNIA LETTUCE GROWERS, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent, v. UNION SUGAR COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 8, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Guggenheim, Eugene S. Clifford, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe and Twitchell & Rice for Appellant.

O'Melveny & Myers, William L. Scott, Pierce Works, Lewis, Grant & Davis and Dennis O'Rourke as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

Schauer, Ryon & McMahon and Robert W. McIntyre for Respondent.


SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the plaintiff. The pleadings and affidavits in support of the motion for the judgment disclose that the controversy arises from the contractual relations of the parties in the sale and purchase of sugar beets during the years 1945 to 1949 inclusive.

On November 1, 1945, the defendant Union Sugar Company leased to California Lettuce Growers approximately 1,000 acres of land situated in Santa Barbara and...

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