Clark v. Roberts

Roberts and Throp, who were plaintiffs below, brought suit against Clark, upon a cause of action growing out of his acting for them as agent in the sale" of threshing machines. The third count of their declaration averred' that defendant, in consideration that they would receive from him, for and on account of certain sales he had made for them, certain promissory notes made by Barber and Bliss, he, the defendant, undertook and promised that the notes were good. The circuit judge found as facts, that defendant was employed to sell the machines for a commission, and that his instructions from…