Eckart v. Roehm
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiffs brought this action in a justice’s court for Clay county, and recovered a judgment of $139.39. An appeal, on questions of fact and law, to the district court for Clay county was tried by Mills, J., (a jury being waived,) who ordered judgment for defendant, which was entered, and the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
The defendant, as administrator of the. estate of & deceased person, was in possession of, and carrying on, a farm in this state. He, residing in another state, employed an agent to take charge of the farm. The agent was authorized to employ, pay, and discharge farm laborers. ’ He was not authorized to purchase goods on credit except from certain merchants, not including the plaintiffs, with whom the defendant had personally made arrangements for the sale of such goods as the agent should desire to purchase for farm use. The agent purchased clothing of the plaintiffs for the men employed on…
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