Jewel Company of America, Inc. v. George

This is an action for goods sold and delivered and on account annexed brought by the seller, Jewel Company of America, Inc., against the buyer, Guy George. The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts by a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. The defendant now appeals from the judgment entered pursuant to the trial justice’s decision.

The agreed statement sets out the following facts. The defendant had known plaintiff corporation and had done business with it for some years before May 1971. In that month, defendant, representing to plaintiff that he was doing business…