Butler Manufacturing Co. v. J & L IMPLEMENT CO.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by Butler Manufacturing Company, plaintiff, from a judgment entered following a jury verdict for J & L Implement Company, defendant, in the district court, Sheridan County.

The basic issue is whether an agency relationship, actual or ostensible, existed between Butler Manufacturing Company (hereinafter called Butler) and Jacobsen Construction Company, Inc. (hereinafter called Jacobsen) upon which J & L Implement Company, defendant, (hereinafter called J & L) could rely when returning unsold steel grain bins…