Ord Hardware Co. v. J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.

This action was brought by the Ord Hardware Company against the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company in the district court for Valley county to recover the sum of $591.25 alleged to be due the plaintiff as commissions for selling a threshing outfit. The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment in the court below, and the defendant has brought the case here by appeal.

It appears from the pleadings and the evidence that the plaintiff was the agent of the defendant company *354under a written contract of agency, which had been renewed from year to year for a period of something like seven years; that on…