Finance Co. of America v. Meckley Bros. Ice Co.

JOHNSON, District Judge. .

The Finance Company of America, a Delaware corporation, instituted an action on an oral contract to recover $5,400 with interest from Meckley Brothers Ice Company, a Pennsylvania corporation. The defendant filed an affidavit of defense raising three questions of law.

The plaintiff in its statement of claim avers that on February 9, 1935, Ralph Meckley, the brother of John G. Meckley, who is the president and treasurer of defendant, “at the direction of said John G. Meckley, and with authority of the defendant,” wrote to the agent of the plaintiff, requesting a loan…