John M. Robich v. Patent Button Company of Tennessee, Inc.

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a fabricator of molded plastic parts from a judgment in a non-jury case in favor of a manufacturer’s representative who sued for commissions under an agency agreement.

Plaintiff-appellee Robich of Louisville, Kentucky represented defendant-appellant Patent Button Company, whose principal office was in Knoxville, Tennessee, in its business relationship with the Appliance Division of General Electric Company in Louisville. The parties signed the contract involved in this litigation in November, 1962. It superseded their first agreement, entered into in…