Herman v. Metal Office Furniture Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Darwin Lindsay, was employed by Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, as administrative assistant to the dean of the Technological Institute. In that capacity he was in charge of procuring furnishings and equipment for the new Technological Institute, which was then under construction:. Defendant Metal Office Furniture Company of Grand Rapids entered into a contract with the university on May 23, 1940, to furnish a large portion of such equipment. The procedure followed under the contract was that, as the building of the new Institute progressed, Lindsay would…