Pinkerton Bros. v. Bromley

The plaintiff was engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Ohio, and had dealings with the Cambridge Fuel Company through Bothwell, its bookkeeper. Bothwell made an arrangement with one Axford to go into the retail grocery business as copartners, Both-well to furnish the money and Axford to attend to the business, profits to be divided equally. Bothwell stocked the store heavily, through successive purchases, of goods, mostly from the plaintiff, with whom he succeeded in establishing a credit for the firm by means of considerable payments from time to time. These payments were made by…