Smith-Gordon Co. v. Snellings
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The controlling facts in this case (omitting many immaterial incidents) may be thus stated:
*529W. E. Snellings was the owner of a drug store which he desired to sell. About ten days previous to his first interview with the agents of the Smith-Gordon Company, Inc., one Barrett had called to see him about buying the stock of goods, but left without doing so. On February 16, 1920, having been previously asked by L. M. Wooten, who after-wards became the purchaser, two agents of Smith-Gordon Company, Inc., the plaintiff in error, approached Snellings, to whom they had been thus directed by Wooten, who…
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