Temby v. William Brunt Pottery Co.

Gwynne M. Temby, plaintiff in error, commenced a suit in assumpsit in the circuit court of Cook county against the William Brunt Pottery Company, defendant in error, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of pottery at East Liverpool, Ohio, and the summons was returned by the sheriff with an endorsement thereon of service on said company “by delivering a copy thereof to Courtland A. Saunders, agent of said corporation, this 29th day of August, 1903, the president of said corporation not found in my county.” Saunders was not an agent of the pottery company. He took orders for goods for it in…