Waldron Co. v. Beattie Manufacturing Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, .Ronald, J., entered February 7, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract for the purchase of rugs. The defense was a denial of the contract and an affirmative defense, in substance, that a general custom of the trade is that a salesman, employed by a manufacturer to take orders from retailers, takes such orders subject to acceptance or rejection by the manufacturer, and has no authority himself to accept or reject an order; and that the plaintiff was notified, at and prior to the time of the making of the memorandum, that the order was subject to acceptance or rejection by defendant;…
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