Standard Oil Co. v. Armbruster

It is insisted that the order for kerosene which Armbruster undertook to give, never reached the company, and to sustain this contention it is said that Mrs. DeGroff, who was not employed by the company, was a mere intermediary made use of by Armbruster to communicate his order for kerosene to her husband, the company’s agent. In View of the. fact that this telephone was listed in the name of the company and the business of DeGroff required him to be on the road much of the time delivering kerosene and gasoline., during which time his wife was in the habit of receiving orders for kerosene and…