Singer Manufacturing Co. v. McAllister Bros.

Defendants in error filed' their petition in the district court, in which they, allege that in 1883 one F. J. Swartz *360was employed by plaintiffs in error as traveling salesman for the purpose of selling sewing machines; and that during the year he sold a large number of such machines, so that by the first day of November of that year plaintiff in error was indebted to him in the sum of $499. The assignment of the claim to defendants in error is alleged in the usual form, and judgment is demanded. To this petition plaintiff in error filed a demurrer, which was overruled, whereupon an answer to…