Stoddart v. Key

— The contract of the 9th day of June, 1877, by the terms of which the defendant Key agreed, for the consideration therein expressed, to serve the plaintiff in canvassing _ for and selling the American reprint of the “ Encyclopaedia Britannica,” was made in the state of Pennsylvania. Although the canvassing and selling under the contract was to be done by Key in the states of Hew York and Hew Jersey, yet he was to report to the plaintiff at Philadelphia, where the book was published, and from whence he was to receive his supplies.

By the agreement Key was to forward to the plaintiff, at…