Malakoff v. Frye

The plaintiff, an alleged assignee of Clarence E. Kefauver, has sued the defendant here to recover the purchase price of certain groceries and other family necessaries sold to defendant and her husband at Seattle in the State of Washington. The ease is before the court on depositions of Mr. Kefauver and of the defendant taken in Washington and on stipulations of counsel as to the laws of Washington.

At the trial of the case, testimony of the plaintiff established that she was not an assignee of the claim in suit, but merely an agent of Mr. Kefauver to collect the claim and that he was the real…