Diamond Hill Gin Co. v. Swift & Co.

The Diamond Hill Gin Company sued Swift & Company on an account for $707 worth of cottonseed which they alleged they had sold to the defendants through one Dock Carr, agent of the defendants. The evidence failed to show that Dock Carr was a general agent of the defendants. If there were circumstances that might have authorized the inference that he was a special agent for the purpose of buying and shipping cottonseed to the defendants, the evidence clearly and indisputably proved that his agency for this purpose was limited to the purchase of cottonseed, and in every instance to paying for it…