Central Pennsylvania Telephone & Supply Co. v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county: Of January Term, 1885, No. 191. This was an action of debt brought by Moses Thompson against the Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply Company to recover the price of a lot of telephone poles furnished by him on a contract made with him by Dunkle, whom he alleged was the agent of the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county: Of January Term, 1885, No. 191. This was an action of debt brought by Moses Thompson against the Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply Company to recover the price of a lot of telephone poles furnished by him on a contract made with him by Dunkle, whom he alleged was the agent of the defendant. The plea was nil debets The following facts appeared on the trial of the ease before Hoy, P. J.: The Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply Company is a corporation organized under the general corporation laws of the Commonwealth. Its object…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The plaintiff, Moses Thompson, claims to recover, in this suit, the price of two hundred and four.telephone poles, which he alleges he sold and delivered to the Central Pennsylvania Telephone and Supply Company in the months of May and June, 1883, under a contract with one S. P. Dunkel, the company’s agent. It is not denied that the company received the "poles, or a part of them, and that they applied them to their use in the'erection of the. Boalsburg and College lines; but, by way of defence, the company allege that they purchased the poles, not from Thompson, but directly from Dunkel, and…
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