Hibline v. Prudential Oil Corp.

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff and defendant respectively, to recover for commissions claimed to be due plaintiff in connection with sales of petroleum coke made by him for the defendant.

Plaintiff was resident manager at Baltimore of the Quemahoning Coal Company, and in that capacity had been for some years engaged in selling coal for that company, as well as engaged in the sale of “anything else on the side that he desired.” Defendant was engaged in the oil-refining…