M. Rosenberg & Sons, Inc. v. Craft

James Lewis Craft, the plaintiff, was an employee of the Radford Ordnance Works, Radford, Virginia. M. Rosenberg and Sons, Inc., the defendant, conducted a mercantile business under the trade nam.e of Oak Hall in Roanoke, selling its merchandise on the installment plan. Craft had been a debtor of defendant but, on March 6, 1942, had paid his account in full. D. E. Thompson, a brother-in-law of Craft, bought a suit of clothes for $27.50 from defendant. He paid $5 in cash and promised to pay $2 a week until the debt was liquidated. Thompson, instead of having the charge made in his own name,…