Waltham Piano Co. v. Freeman

The defendant handles pianos as jobber and retailer at Cedar Rapids. By written contract he purchased fifteen pianos of plaintiff, who shipped them to Toledo, where the latter undertook to conduct a special sale thereof, and to sell sixty per- cent, of the same. It was to receive for such service ten per cent, of the gross amount of the business done, and defendant was to furnish the board of plaintiff’s salesman, advertising, and other expenses. Pianos were not disposed of as anticipated, and a controversy arose, whereupon this action for the purchase price of the pianos, $1,685, commissions…