Rice v. Armour & Co.

The appellee alleges that, on or about the 20th day of May, 1920, it sold to the appellant two carloads of hogs at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which hogs were shipped to the appellant at Sioux City, Iowa. The contention of the appellee is that it sold said hogs to the appellant through a firm in Sioux Falls, known as the Hopkins-Harrington Company, which, it is claimed, were agents of the appellant.

The claim of the appellant is that no such agency existed, and that Hopkins-Harrington Company bought the hogs- in question from the appellee as independent contractors, and re- • sold them to the…