Floreth v. Totsch

This is an action in replevin which originated in a justice's court in Mason Township, Marion County, Missouri.

Plaintiffs, who do business out of Jacksonville, Illinois, as the Illinois Tire Battery Company, are manufacturers' agents and jobbers for the distribution and sale of certain types of automobile equipment, and in 1936 had the exclusive agency for the distribution of Hood tires and Exide batteries in a territory which included Hannibal, Mo.

Their agent or representative in charge of the Hannibal territory was one Peggs, who, early in 1936, advertised for a local sales agent for the…