Fritz v. Chicago Grain & Elevator Co.

Defendant’s answer was in. effect a general denial, and it also contained a counterclaim for money advanced to plaintiff, and unaccounted for by him. At the trial defendant introduced no testimony, and the case went to the jury upon the evidence adduced by plaintiff. As already stated, the verdict was for plaintiff, and the appeal is from the judgment rendered thereon. Something like twenty-one errors are assigned in the argument filed for defendant, but in the main they are based upon a few fundamental principles of the law of agency. For instance, it is contended that the authority of an…