Grand Avenue Hotel Co. v. Friedman, Keiler & Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from tbe Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. John W. Henry, Judge. (1) Judgment in favor of plaintiffs was error because there was no agreement between defendants and its traveling salesman whereby it authorized him to obtain any of his expenses upon credit or have the same charged to them or that they would be in any way responsible therefor.
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Appeal from tbe Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. John W. Henry, Judge. (1) Judgment in favor of plaintiffs was error because there was no agreement between defendants and its traveling salesman whereby it authorized him to obtain any of his expenses upon credit or have the same charged to them or that they would be in any way responsible therefor. Nicholson v. Peas, 61 Yt. 534; Covington v. Newberger, 99 N. C. 523. (2) The judgment in this case is error for the reason that defendants’ agent neither represented that he had au- • thority to bind defendants for his expenses, nor in any manner…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
The plaintiff is a business corporation engaged in running the Midlánd Hotel in Kansas City. The defendants are a firm of merchants engaged in the wholesale whiskey business at Paducah, in the state of Kentucky.
The defendants employed one Al. Howell as a traveling salesman to solicit orders from the trade in this state for their whiskeys. The contract of employment made by the defendants with Plowell was to the effect that, the latter was to make a trial trip in the territory already indicated and the former was to pay him for his services $125 per month and expenses not to exceed $8.50 per…
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