Shepley v. Henry Siegel Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for services in purchasing horses for the defendant. Writ dated October 16,1907. The case was tried before Bond, J. The facts are stated in the opinion. The jury found for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action brought to recover compensation for the plaintiff’s services in buying for the defendant and at its request thirty-one horses in Montreal, Canada, and forty-five horses in Boston.
The plaintiff testified that when he was driving with Jenckes, the defendant’s agent, on Sunday in the early part of June, 1905, Jenckes suggested to him that he should buy one hundred horses in Canada for the defendant; that he “ told Jenckes he could go but asked who was to pay him and. Jenckes replied, the defendant.” Later, “ on a Tuesday,” Jenckes asked the plaintiff to go “ about July 5th.”…
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