Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. v. Pintado

The only question presented by the record in this case is one of agency. About the first of January, 1921, Doctor Pintado, the defendant in error, entered into a contract with Mr. W. Wilson in the City of Key West for the purchase of an automobile manufactured by the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Wilson conducted a garage in Key West and held himself out as a distributor of Paige Motor Cars. The price which Dr. Pintado agreed to pay Mr. Wilson for the automobile was $1670.00 on board the cars at Detroit, Michigan and to bind the trade he deposited in the First…