Corbin v. Sage

Corbin sued defendants for a failure to put in their saw-mill a lath machine which he claims they had agreed to have set up, and to employ him to run it during the season of 1866 — T at a compensation named.

The jury found no such contract was made. The testimony conflicted as to what actually took place between Cor-bin and the agent of defendants. We have not discovered anything which indicates very clearly if at all that proof was made that the agent had power to make such a contract, or that Corbin had reason to rely on such power. But this was left to the jury. In his charge the judge told…