McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. McKee

Tbe plaintiff, a foreign corporation organized under tbe laws of the state of Illinois, on the 13th day of December, 1880, and for a long time previous thereto, was doing business in the village of Kalamazoo. During said period one Solomon L. Beardsley acted as general agent for, and conducted the business of, said plaintiff at Kalamazoo, which was selling agricultural implements and machinery manufactured by them; and during the same period said Beardsley, John C. Bloom and said defendant John McKee, Jr., entered into a copartnership for the purpose of selling agricultural implements in…