Greenlease-Lied Motors v. Sadler

The plaintiff was engaged in the sale and distribution of Oldsmobile automobiles at Omaha, Nebraska. One Clayton Crowley was an automobile dealer at Council Bluffs engaged in the business of selling Oldsmobile and other cars in that city, under the name of “Crowley Motors”. One of Crowley’s selling agents was one W. Johnson.

On the 11th of April, 1931, Mr. Johnson as Crowley’s agent arranged for the sale of an Oldsmobile car on a cash basis, to the defendant John J. Sadler of Council Bluffs. Crowley did not have the model Sadler wanted, so on April 12 he went to the GreenleaseLied Motors…