Zelen v. Domestic Industries, Inc.

This was originally an action for damages for an alleged breach of contract, entered into about March 1, 1932, between the plaintiff, Hyman Zelen, then doing business under the trade-name of the Western Electric Supply Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, and the defendant, Domestic Industries, Inc., a nonresident manufacturing corporation.

As set forth in plaintiff’s first petition, under the terms of this engagement the Western Electric Supply Company was employed by the Domestic Industries, Inc., to act as the latter’s sole distributors of its manufactured products in a definite territory which…