Trico Coffee Co. v. Clemens

Eddie Clemens, a minor, nine years of age, by his next friend, recovered a substantial judgment in an action at law aganist the Trico Coffee Company, Inc., and Morris Slaydon, from which judgment the appellant, Trico Coffee Company, only, appeals.

The sole point presented by- the appellant here is that, the court was in error in not granting it a peremptory instruction.

The record discloses that the appellant company was engaged in the business of selling coffee and other groceries from an inclosed truck in which were stored articles of merchandise. Slaydon was a salesman of the appellant…