Brenard Mfg. Co. v. M. Levy, Inc.

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover $392.14, the amount of five certain promissory notes given by defendant company in payment of three phonographs (Claxtonolas) which it ordered in writing at the time of the execution of the instruments. In the same document with the order was an agency contract between the parties for the sale of similar machines by the defendant company.

The suit was contested, and liability was denied on the ground that the defendant company was induced to sign the notes and enter into the agreement because of certain representations made by plaintiff’s agent at the…