Case ID: ny-super-ct_45/html/0636-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Freedman, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ERIE PRESERVING COMPANY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JONATHAN PEARSALL, et al., Defendants and Appellants.
    Before Curtis, Ch. J., and Freedman, J.
    
      Decided December 1, 1879.
    A contract between "an agent of a manufacturing house, and one proposing to buy the goods sold by him as such agent, by which, payment for the said goods was to be made by supplying said agent with merchandise dealt in by the buyers,—i. e., groceries,—the parties dealing with such agent being aware that he was acting for others, Held, one which requires special authority or ratification.
    Appeal from judgment entered upon a verdict rendered pursuant to the direction of^the court, and from order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial on the minutes.
    
      Ambrose Monell, for appellants.
    
      Charles T. Carnes, and E. Louis Lowe, for respondent.
   Freedman, J.,

wrote for affirmance with costs.

Curtis, Ch. J., concurred.