Court Opinion

ID: 9535266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:47:34.734011+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:12.399920
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing. In appellees’ petition for rehearing it is suggested that inasmuch as Bernard E. Wrigley was the agent of and acted for the Elevator Company and was authorized to transact the business of this company the court erroneously concluded that he did not have authority to consent on behalf of the Elevator Company to the provisions of the Cole Grain Company contract with the Corn Products Refining Company. It is also urged that in requiring the Cole Grain Company and the Wrigley Estate to account to the Elevator Company for the difference in the storage charge which Cole Grain Company collected from the Refining Company and the amount which the Cole Grain Company paid to the Elevator Company the court permits the Elevator Company to collect storage charges in excess of its legal tariff.  Mr. Wrigley was authorized to transact business for the Elevator Company but he was not authorized to lease to the Cole Grain Company a substantial amount of storage space in the Elevator for the legal tariff and then acting for the Cole Grain Company lease the same space to the Refining Company for a substantial higher amount than the legal tariff. The fact that as a result thereof the Elevator Company will now receive storage charges in excess of its published tariff is not a matter of which either the Cole Grain Company or the personal representative of the Wrigley Estate can complain. It is also stated that to permit the Elevator Company to collect from Commodity Credit Corporation and others for the use of space under lease to Terminal Grain Company and for the use of space under lease to Cole Grain Company will result in permitting the Elevator Company to collect from two companies for the same space. Counsel then continues: “If East Peoria Elevator Company used storage space which was under lease to Cole Grain Company or Terminal Grain Company, either with, or without permission of such lessees, then such lessee is entitled to be reimbursed in accordance with its arrangement with the Elevator Company on a quantum meruit basis and it therefore became the duty of Wrigley to reimburse Cole Grain Company and Terminal Grain Company for the use of such space.” These conclusions are based upon the assumption that the Commodity Credit Corporation used space leased by the Elevator Company to Terminal Grain Company and to Cole Grain Company. We adhere to our holding that the evidence in this record does not warrant these conclusions. Rehearing denied. McNEAL and SPIVEY, JJ., concur.