Campbell v. Van Houten

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace by a firm of merchants, doing business at Shreveport, Louisiana, against the defendant, a merchant doing business at St. Louis under the name of “Robinson & Co.” On trial anew in the circuit court the defendant had a verdict and judgment, and the plaintiff brings the case here by writ of error.

The evidence tended to show that the defendant employed one Rowland, as a traveling salesman, at a salary of $75 a month and expenses, to travel for him and to sell his goods in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Several letters of…