Lyon v. Chamberlain

The defendants in error were in trade ’together as grocers, and plaintiff in error and P. H. Page carried on certain manufacturing under the firm name of the “Plainwell Manufacturing Company.” They employed one Kulp, and plaintiff in error, who seems to have been financial manager, gave him two written orders on defendants in error for such trade as he might call for up to thirty-five dollars. He traded the amount authorized. Afterwards Lyon agreed orally with defendants in error that they might furnish goods on his account to Kulp, to a certain amount per week, and they did so. What was…