DeLong v. Northwest Motor Co.

Citations

• 116 Wash. 220
• 199 P. 233
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 814

Syllabus

<p>Principal and Agent (42, 57, 58-1)—Evidence—Sufficiency. In an action against a principal for the conversion of an automobile by its agent, a verdict against defendant was warranted by evidence showing its sales agent in attempting to make a sale of one of defendant’s cars to plaintiff offered to take a car owned by plaintiff and credit it on the purchase price; that, though the bill of sale for plaintiff’s car was made direct to the sales agent, the car was placed among defendant’s second-hand cars, and kept there until its disappearance; that a mechanic employed by defendant to examine cars was required to procure an order from the main office for the delivery of the car from the second-hand department for that purpose, which was given him by the sales agent, at the time the only one in charge of the main office; and that there was nothing in the evidence putting plaintiff upon inquiry or notice that the sales agent was exceeding his authority.</p>