Case Name: EARL J. MEYER, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OF ESTATE OF ALBION-FRENCH LAKE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY ASSOCIATION, v. FIRST DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1969-08-15
Citations: 284 Minn. 342
Docket Number: No. 41504
Parties: EARL J. MEYER, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OF ESTATE OF ALBION-FRENCH LAKE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY ASSOCIATION, v. FIRST DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 284
Pages: 342–343

Head Matter:
EARL J. MEYER, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OF ESTATE OF ALBION-FRENCH LAKE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY ASSOCIATION, v. FIRST DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.
170 N. W. (2d) 429.
August 15, 1969
No. 41504.
Popham, Haile, Schnobrich, Kaufman & Doty, Wayne G. Popham, and Rolfe A. Worden, for appellant.
Harold Jordan, Ralph K. Morris, and George Neperud, for respondent.

Opinion:
Sheran, Justice.
Appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing an action for damages. In Benson Co-op. Creamery Assn. v. First District Assn. 284 Minn. 335, 170 N. W. (2d) 425, we held that the First District Association was under an implied obligation to accept the skim milk tendered by one of its members so long as it continued to be a member in good standing and so long as the cooperative marketing association lacked reasonable cause or justification for refusing acceptance of the member's product.
The relationship between the Albion-French Lake Coopera tive Creamery Association and First District Association, the parties here, was essentially the same as that set out in the cited opinion. We therefore hold, as we did in Benson, that the failure to accept skim milk tendered by Albion during the time that Albion was a member in good standing constituted a breach of implied contract between First District and Albion for which such general damages, if any, as are provable can be recovered.
The determination of the trial court that there was no such implied obligation on the part of First District is reversed and the case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion and with our decision in Benson Co-op. Creamery Assn. v. First District Assn, supra.
Reversed and remanded.