Prime Manufacturing Co. v. Kelly

Plaintiff Prime Manufacturing Company is a Wisconsin corporation and it has for many years engaged in the business of selling to railroads sander equipment, solenoid valves, drain valves, and bell ringers which it purchased from Graham-White Manufacturing Company of Salem, Virginia, under an oral arrangement. For many years prior to March 15, 1957, D. Allcott Kelly was employed by plaintiff as “assistant to the president.” Kelly was in charge of resale of railroad equipment purchased by plaintiff from the Graham-White Manufacturing Company.

Graham-White Sales Corporation was incorporated in…