Court Opinion

ID: 6281358
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 16:17:11.724025+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:12.433175
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The plaintiff brought this action against the defendant to recover the amount which, it was alleged, the latter had agreed to pay for materials furnished and workmen supplied in connection with its contract for waterproofing the cellar of a newly constructed building. The defendant denied that it was interested in said waterproofing contract and alleged that its business was confined to the manufacture and sale of a waterproofing compound, which, when mixed with water, sand and cement, was applied to walls and floors, but that it did not undertake the work itself; that the person who had contracted with the plaintiff for the furnishing of said labor and materials was only its general sales agent and had no authority to contract in its name for the waterproofing of buildings or for the labor and materials supplied by the plaintiff.
Evidence was produced on the trial from which the jury might' find that the defendant was engaged in the waterproofing business and had recognized the authority of its agent to make the contract in question. The bills for the work had come from the home office of the defendant company; when it proved unsatisfactory notice had been given the defendant at its home office, and in response thereto an executive officer of the company had brought some workmen over, bought sand and cement to mix with the waterproofing compound, endeavored to *54remedy the trouble and promised to “make it good,”— “we will take care of it.”
With such evidence in the record the trial judge was obliged to submit the question of fact to the jury. The order of admission of the evidence to establish the authority of defendant’s agent was in the discretion of the court.
The assignments of error are overruled and the judgment is affirmed.