Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. v. Cooke

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Latimer

— Affirming.

Appellees, as plaintiffs below, instituted this action to recover from the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company $3,500, the purchase price of a Cadillac automobile, alleged to have been sold to appellant on or about June 1, 1944. Appellant defended alleging this automobile was never purchased by it, nor sold or delivered to it, but that appellees made a sale of the automobile to Marshall F. Lerch, a former employee of appellant.

At the conclusion of all the testimony the trial court directed a verdict in favor of appellees. Promptly and within…