Holtz v. S. Landow Fruit Produce Co., Inc.

This was an action to recover the balance of the purchase price of several lots of merchandise alleged to have been sold to the defendant and upon its president’s order shipped to the Virginia Novelty Company. The defendant’s answer denied that it owed anything to the plaintiff, and pleaded specially that though it authorized him to charge it for the original order of March, 1937, but $11.73 remained unpaid thereon, and it never authorized or agreed to be responsible for the other items in the complaint. The court gave judgment for the plaintiff to recover $681.20 damages. By its assignments…