Williams v. Texas Co.

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne

(dissenting) :

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the respondent, the Texas Company, in an action brought by R. J. Williams, appellant, to recover the sum of $500.00 alleged to be due him by the respondent.

The plaintiff, Williams, sets forth in his complaint that during the month of February, 1937, he was employed by the Texas Company, through its zone representative, J. W. Dowdle, as an agent to purchase for the company a filling station and site owned by one W. P. Clark, in the town of Mullins, South Carolina, for the sum of $3,500.00 with the option…