Purcell v. . Jaycox

The evidence clearly established that Holbrook, the carman of the defendants, had general authority to receive for them all goods directed to them and arriving at the Binghamton railroad depot at Syracuse. That his authority was recognized by the railroad company and goods were delivered to him without any special order from the defendants and he always receipted for the goods so delivered to him, and that the defendants were in the habit of settling monthly with the railroad company for the freight upon all goods thus received by Holbrook. Also that the deliveries to him included returned…