Montana-Dakota Power Co. v. Johnson

The plaintiff furnishes light and power to the people of Plentywood. In November, 1930, it employed the Farmers’ & Merchants’ State Bank to collect its monthly bills and instructed the cashier of the bank to keep a record of daily collections made on blank “collection statements” furnished, to which the “stubs” from customers’ bills should be attached as the bills were paid, and directed that each third day the collection statement should be mailed to the plaintiff’s office at WiHiston, North Dakota, with a draft for the full amount collected during the period. The plaintiff was not a…