Dustin Grocery & Feed Co. v. Lucas

1923 OK 253, 215 P. 417, 91 Okla. 11, 1923 Okla. LEXIS 640

Opinion

Opinion 'by

STEPHENS ON, O.

The plaintiffs commenced tlieir action against the defendant upon an alleged contract for the sale of a ear of potatoes by the defendant to the plaintiffs. It was alleged! in the petition that the defendant sold the plaintiffs a ear of northern seed potatoes for the sum of $3.85 per' hundred, delivered at Wetumka, Oklahoma, but that contrary toi contract the defendant shipped a car of potatoes billed to plaintiff at $4.85 per hundred, and that there was a shortage of 6,000 pounds, and that the plaintiff took up the draft covering the alleged shortage and excess in price amounting to $591. The defendant filed its ■answer joining issue upon the question tendered by the plaintiffs, and further alleging that northern potatoes meant those grown in Nebraska, which was the class of potatoes that defendant agreed to sell the plaintiffs. The defendant further alleged that at a later time it advised the plaintiffs that there would be a delay in shipping the northern potatoes, but it would ship a car of Wisconsin or Minnesota potatoes at $4.85 per hundred. The, plaintiffs contended they understood northern potatoes to mean Wisconsin or Minnesota potatoes, and that this was the class they purchased, or agreed to purchase, from the defendant. All these questions were sharply disputed between the parties to the suit. A jury was waived and the issues of facts were submitted to the court for trial. There was abundant evidence introduced by the parlies in support of their respective contentions. Upon all the testimony introduced in the case the court found the issues of fact in favor of the plaintiffs, and rendered judgment for the plaintiffs in the sum sued for.

This court has previously announced the rule to be that where the parlies waive a jury and submit the issues of fact to the court, a finding of fact made by the trial court upon conflicting testimony will not be reversed where there is testimony reasonably tending to support the finding and judgment pf the court. Meagher v. Harjo et al., 72 Oklahoma, 179 Pac. 757; Foreman v. Needles et al., 78 Okla. 105, 188 Pac. 1087; Conner v. Warner, 52 Okla. 630, 152 Pac. 1116; Bohart v. Mathews, 29 Okla. 315, 116 Pac. 944; McCann v. McCann, 24 Okla. 264, 103 Pac. 694.

The action of the trial court in overruling motion to quash garnishment proceedings in this case is approved upon the record as diclosed. But it appears from the record that the court was fully warranted in arriving at the conclusion upon which the ruling was based. We recommend that the case in all matters be affirmed.

By the Court: It is so ordered.