Plano Manufacturing Co. v. Parmenter

This cause was tried in the Circuit Court of Peoria county on appeal from a justice of the peace, wherein appellant was plaintiff. Appellant is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of harvesting machinery, with its principal office at Chicago.

In the winter of 1886 it entered into a written contract with appellee, who resides at Knoxville, Illinois, for the sale of its machines at that point and vicinity.

The parts of the said contract deemed necessary to be considered here are the appointment of appellee as the agent of appellant for the purpose above indicated, which agency was to…