Kirchner v. New Home Sewing-Machine Co.

This case should have gone to the jury. The defendant is a manufacturer of sewing-machines. The plaintiff sold machines for the defendant. The precise nature of the arrangement is not very clear, but whether the plaintiff was a purchaser of the machines, or was merely an agent to sell them, it seems clear that the price of the machines was not payable by plaintiff to defendant until after they were sold. Kirchner hired the store and had property of his own in it. The defendant arrested the plaintiff for misappropriation of moneys collected, and the plaintiff was put in jail. The plaintiff…