Reeves & Co. v. Curlee

Ames, C.

This is a proceeding in error to reverse a judgment for the plaintiff in the district court in an action to recover commissions as a sales agent. The defendant corporation is a dealer in traction engines, and had constituted the plaintiff its agent, at the village of Bartley and vicinity, by a written contract containing the following clause: “The party of the first part reserves the right to sell to any party in the above mentioned territory who *56may come to their shop to buy, or send their orders direct to them, or any of their general agents; but when such parties have been…