Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Bear Butte Valley Bank

The Montana-Dakota Power -Company is a public utilities company, serving a large number of towns in Western South Dakota with natural gas, and maintains its principal office in the territory at Rap-id City. The company maintained an office in Sturgis, which town it served, and one W. C. Baker was the manager of the Sturgis office. In the Sturgis office gas equipment was sold at retail, and all bills incurred in the consumption of gas and purchases made in the vicinity of Sturgis were paid at the Sturgis office. Baker was in general charge of this office, and generally conducted the business…