Noah v. L. B. Price Mercantile Co.

— Plaintiff, claiming to have been injured through being run over by a wagon negligently driven by defendant’s servant while in the prosecution of the master’s business, brought suit to recover damages therefor. In his first action he suffered a nonsuit and thereafter he brought this action, recovering therein a verdict and judgment for $6000 from which the defendant has appealed,

Defendant is in the business of selling merchandise at retail throughout Kansas City, and perhaps adjacent towns, by means of solicitors who canvass from house to house working under foremen who are each in charge of…