Beebe v. the Columbia Axle Co.

— This appeal comes to us from the circuit court of Jackson county. The suit grows out of an oral contract made between the plaintiff and the defendant on or about January 28, 1935, running for an indefinite period of time, by the terms of which the defendant employed the plaintiff to act in a certain restricted territory, embracing all of the State of Kansas and parts of western Missouri, as its exclusive agent or factory distributor of certain automobile and truck equipment manufactured by it, which contract by mutual oral agreement was afterward, in February,. 1935, modified so as to…