Doane v. Dunham
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. William A. Poetee, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McAllister
This was indebitatus assumpsit, by Dunham against J. W. Doane & Co. for a quantity of sugar sold and delivered. The latter pleaded the general issue.
It appears by uneontradicted evidence that Dunham was the agent in Chicago, for manufacturers of sugar in Boston and Philadelphia, and also sold on commission for parties in New York; that he kept a store in Chicago, from which he was accustomed to sell sugars to the wholesale dealers in that city by means of an agent of the name of Briggs, who visited the stores of the wholesale grocers every day soliciting orders, sometimes taking samples with…
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