Wilson v. Pericat

Citations

• 235 Pa. 412
• 84 A. 404
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 561

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Burden of proof — Principal and agent — Sales.</p> <p>In a suit by a grower of orchid blooms against her head gardener to recover the value of the blooms which she alleged he had sold for her account in his own name to a dealer, where the defendant claims that some of the blooms which he had sold to the dealer were of his own growth, and that the others had been given to him by the plaintiff, and the plaintiff offers in evidence the account of the dealer, conceded to be correct, showing all the blooms which the dealer had purchased from the defendant, the burden of proof is upon the defendant to show what blooms in the account were sold by him as his own property.</p>