Jones v. . Call
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Evidence — Lost Paper — Case on Appeal — Contract—Copartnership — New Trial- — -Judge’s Charge — Agency. This was a civil ACTION, tried before MeKoy, Judge, at Spring Term, 1884, of the Superior Court of Guilford county. There was a verdict and judgment thereon for the plaintiff, from which the defendant Call appealed.
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Evidence — Lost Paper — Case on Appeal — Contract—Copartnership — New Trial- — -Judge’s Charge — Agency. This was a civil ACTION, tried before MeKoy, Judge, at Spring Term, 1884, of the Superior Court of Guilford county. There was a verdict and judgment thereon for the plaintiff, from which the defendant Call appealed. The plaintiff’s action is to recover compensation for services rendered in an agency undertaken and prosecuted to introduce to public favor, and make sale, of certain machines used in the manufacture of tobacco, which had been invented by, and patented to the defendant J. L.…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the case). I. The first exception, apparent in the record but not urged in the argument, is to the refusal of the Court to submit the three additional issues proposed by defendant to the jury.
These present in a more summary form the inquiries contained in the others, and their rejection can be in no manner prejudicial to the defence. The elements in the controversy with Call are, his employing the plaintiff directly or through an agent, and his having entered into such relations with J. L. Jones as in law confers upon the latter the authority to contract for both.
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