Electrolux Corporation v. Iverson

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a bill for an accounting filed by ■appellee as a sales agent for appellant on •account of an amount claimed as compensation on the basis of commissions agreed on.

It seems to be based on the theory that the equitable remedy of accounting is available for such a claim by an agent against 'his principal. The theory is that on account of the confidential relations existing between an agent and his principal, equity will take jurisdiction, although it would not do so without the existence of that relation, or some other equitable right is invoked in which an accounting is…