Middleton v. Wilson & Lozano

STONE, C. J.-

Tefft, Weller & Co. were wholesale merchants doing business in New York, and Sweeny was a salesman of theirs, having more than usual powers to negotiate sales, either as to a class of persons, or within a certain locality. The record does not inform us as to the precise nature or extent of his powers. We infer that he was specially authorized to negotiate sales to customers, whose patronage of the' house was procured through his instrumentality, and that Wilson & Lozano, retail merchants of Mobile, Alabama, were óf that class. It is not shown -whether Sweeny was what is known as…