Johnson v. International Shoe Company

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice McCandless

Reversing’

The International Shoe Company sued R. H. Johnson on account for $477.42 for shoes sold and delivered on different dates between December 31,1925, and March 11, 1926. The defendant admitted the indebtedness, but in an answer and counterclaim asserted that he had been engaged in the mercantile business in Jackson, Ky., for a number of years. In 1920, at the solicitation of plaintiff’s agent, he purchased a bill of shoes from plaintiff, with the agreement and understanding that he would work up a trade therein, and that plaintiff would…