Turner-Tulsa Co. v. H. Schnell & Co.

The Turner-Tulsa Company, a corporation, engaged in the wholesale fruit and vegetable business, gave its written order to a New York broker to ship it from New York a car of onions with specifications named and ait a designated price, f. o. b. New York. The broker in writing accepted the order and then, claiming to act as agent for the Turner-Tulsa Company, entered into a written contract with H. Schnell & Company, a corporation, to fill this order, therein agreeing that delivery to the common carrier at New York should be delivery to the purdhaser. The onions were loaded on the cars and…