GENERAL AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY v. Douglass

Plaintiff alleged in its Complaint that “Charles B. Douglass acting for himself and as agent for his wife, Olive J. Douglass, entered into an entire and indivisible contract with plaintiff” to install a warm air-type heating system complete in a house on the lot described in the Complaint. The plaintiff contends such an agency can be implied from the facts in evidence.

All the defendants in their answers denied that Charles B. Douglass acted as agent for his wife. His wife in her answer alleged as a defense that she did not know plaintiff, had no dealings with it, had no knowledge that it…