Rountree Motor Co. v. Smith Motor Co.

This suit arose out of an automobile agency contract whereby appellee, L. O. Smith, doing business as the Smith Motor Company, represented the appellant, Rountree Motor Company, a corporation, Houston, Tex., as its automobile sales agent in the town of Conroe, Tex. Claiming a breach of the contract the appellant, as plaintiff, instituted this suit for possession of ten secondhand automobiles of the alleged total value of $2,130 which had been taken in by Smith as part payment on the purchase of new cars.

The contract was oral. However, there is little dispute about the terms of it. So far as…