Powers v. Gouraud

The defendant authorized the plaintiff to sell 100 kinetoscopes, for which plaintiff was to receive 25 per cent, of the profit after deducting the cost to defendant. The evidence produced by plaintiff is to the effect that he procured a purchaser able and willing to buy the 100 kinetoscopes at $436.25 a piece; that the cost to defendant was $200 for each machine; that the profit to defendant was $236.25, and that the plaintiff’s commission was $59.06 for each machine, or $5,906 for the 100 machines, from which plaintiff deducts some .money belonging to defendant and in plaintiff’s possession,…