Nation-Wide Check Corp. v. Robinson

DOWD, Judge.

This appeal involves the interpretation of a written contract which established an agency relationship between plaintiff, Nation-Wide Check Corporation, as principal, and defendant, Joseph M. Robinson, as agent. In this court tried case, the court below decided in favor of the defendant, holding that the contract was ambiguous. The plaintiff appeals.

The testimony at the trial established that plaintiff is in the business of selling money orders through designated agents throughout the country. Defendant, who operated a drug store in the City of St. Louis, was one of plaintiff’s…