Austin v. Buettner

The appellant, Austin, then a solicitor of new accounts for The Equitable Trust Company, of Baltimore, visited a tavern at Riviera Beach, in Anne Arundel County, leased and operated by one of the appellees, Vance’s Tavern, Inc., and owned by the other appellees, the Buettners. The purpose of Austin’s visit was to solicit business for his employer. He had had no previous contact with Vance’s Tavern, and his call was made in the course of canvassing the Riviera Beach area for customers for a branch of the Trust Company. He arrived at about eleven o’clock in the morning on September 16, 1952.…