Cobb v. Arundell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Iowa County. Action on an account for fifty washing machines, alleged to have been manufactured and delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendant upon his order. * The plaintiffs were doing business in the town of Mineral Point, and the defendant in the town of Dodgeville, both in Iowa county.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Iowa County. Action on an account for fifty washing machines, alleged to have been manufactured and delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendant upon his order. * The plaintiffs were doing business in the town of Mineral Point, and the defendant in the town of Dodgeville, both in Iowa county. The plaintiffs’ own testimony tended to show that one Mitchell, who was engaged in driving a team between Mineral Point and Dodgeville, ordered fifty of said machine heads in the name of the defendant, at an agreed price; that on the 5th of June following, they delivered…
1Opinion of the CourtPaine, J.
The questions, whether the teamster Mitchell had any authority to order the machine heads for the defendant, and whether the teamster Davey had any authority, at the time he paid for the defendant the $18 on the old account, to request the plaintiffs to “ let the account for the machine heads run,” were fairly submitted to the jury, in such a manner that they must have clearly understood that if they found either the original authority or the sub sequent ratification necessarily implied by such a request, then the plaintiffs ought to recover. They found for the defendant; and there was…
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