Mead v. Brotherton

This was an action to recover the sum of four hundred dollars, alleged to be due for a gold watch sold to the appellant. The only question arising upon the pleadings and evidence in the cause was whether the witness, one C. H. Pond, who purchased the watch in question, bought it on his'own *202account and upon Ms own credit, or as the agent of, and upon the credit of, appellant.

Several instructions were asked by the appellant, all of which were refused, and properly so, we think, because the three first especially present the single hypothesis of an agreement between the appellant and Pond,…