Fredonia Canning Co. v. Sergeant & Nicholoy, Inc.

The facts are not in dispute. The parties have had business dealings over a period of at least fifteen years. The functions of the broker — field and resident— and the trade practices and customs in the business clearly establish the scope and extent of the brokers’ agency.

It appears that in the summer of 1931, Mr. Engle, the president of the defendant company, called at the plaintiff’s factory at Fredonia in company with one Mr. Lachman, a resident broker engaged in business at Chicago'. Mr. Engle introduced Mr. Lachman to1 Mr. Meyer, president of the plaintiff company, as his associate…