Crawford v. Moran
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Cortract, to recover $100, being the amount of salary due to the plaintiff for services as a travelling salesman for the defendants from December 30,1895, to January 27, 1896. At the trial in the Superior Court, before IAlley, J., there was evidence tending to show that the defendants, who were copart-' ners, carrying on business until the autumn of 1895 under -the firm name of Charles E. Hall and Company, and after that under the name of the National Soda Fountain Company,…
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Cortract, to recover $100, being the amount of salary due to the plaintiff for services as a travelling salesman for the defendants from December 30,1895, to January 27, 1896. At the trial in the Superior Court, before IAlley, J., there was evidence tending to show that the defendants, who were copart-' ners, carrying on business until the autumn of 1895 under -the firm name of Charles E. Hall and Company, and after that under the name of the National Soda Fountain Company, on October 8,1895, entered into an agreement, under seal, with one Presby, to employ him as a salesman for two years…
1Opinion of the CourtAller, J.
1. The receipt given by the plaintiff to Presby was admissible, on the ground that evidence had already been introduced which, if believed, was sufficient to show that Presby in taking it was acting as the defendants’ agent. The plaintiff had offered evidence tending to show that the defendants had expressly authorized Presby to employ salesmen, and enter into any reasonable contracts with them in the name of the defendants ; that they had held him out as the general manager of their sales department} and especially that one or more members of the defendant firm had said to Presby that he had…
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