Palmer-Murphey Co. v. Barnett

1. Where three persons, each desiring to purchase twenty-five tons of fertilizer, enter into negotiations with a “salesman” who has authority to “get out and solicit business, fill in contracts, and send them in for” acceptance by his employer, a fertilizer dealer, by the terms of which negotiations they agree to join with some other person and execute a contract for the purchase of one hundred tons of fertilizer, and where, pursuant to such understanding, and after the departure of the salesman, these three persons sign a written instrument which contains the terms of a contract for the sale…