Crescent Cigar & Tobacco Co. v. National Casualty Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff, Orescent Cigar & Tobacco Company, a corporation engaged in the sale of merchandise, employed Lester Bunch as a “peddler” or traveling salesman, furnishing to him a stock of merchandise and an automobile truck. At the end of each day Bunch was required to return to the office or warehouse of plaintiff company and to surrender such cash as he had received during the day and to replenish his stock in accordance with his anticipated needs.

After several months an inventory and a complete accounting was had, and it then developed that the said Bunch had failed to account…