Stewart Electric Co. v. Meyer Systems Corp.

I respectfully disagree with the decision in this case. I believe an injustice has occurred. Simply stated, by this decision we have permitted one company to order goods on credit from another company, receive the direct benefit of those goods and yet refuse to pay for them on the theory that the employee who ordered them had no authority to bind the purchasing company. I regard the result as clearly against the weight of the evidence and not in keeping with the law.

The trial court found in effect that Stewart Electric Co. failed to meet the burden of proving Mr. Weldon Geron, an employee of…