Louchheim v. Davies

Citations

• 148 Pa. 499
• 24 A. 72
• 1892 Pa. LEXIS 1010

Syllabus

<p>Agency — Traveling salesman — Authority to hind principal — Question for jury.</p> <p>A traveling salesman having been authorized by defendant to allow to plaintiff, who had made a claim for alleged defects in goods previously sold by defendant to plaintiff, the sum of $50.00 in settlement of the claim, agreed, in consideration of the plaintiff giving him an order for new goods, that his principal should take back the goods alleged to be defective. This contract having been repudiated by defendant, it was</p> <p>Held, That the question of the agent’s authority to bind liis principal by such an agreement was a question of fact for the jury.</p>