Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. v. Rogers

Clark:, C. J.

This action was begun against the defendants, who

were country merchants doing business as Eli Rogers & Co., to recover for certain fertilizers sold by plaintiff under contract which it contends made the defendants its agents; that later in the year the plaintiff closed the account by notes and took as collateral certain running accounts due said Rogers and Jenkins. It appears that the defendants purchased fertilizers from various other concerns, keeping no separate account as to the goods purchased from the plaintiff or from others, and in selling and charging the same they did…