AN AGENT'S LIABILITY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18100, 16 June 1924, Page 11

AN AGENT'S LIABILITY.

[/sss.,% deqisioh at. the Magistrate's Court'at* Auckland .ldst'weekjin the' case'brought by ;'%taiace' | v.... Woolsttfn ... Tanneries) -Ltd. ■■' (Mr Hoaro"):-'an. tfetion to' 'recqver'/£43 '4a ' 'Bd'. afldgeil"•' 'to be '*.du,d •Ifor * gfloda,.' sup; .plied,,bX plaintiff to defendant.- 'Payment was :ref used on the .grounds that the .'goods were purchased with thp right to return, and ,that, defendant company Was appointed solo agent for | a specified' territory, and, it w.is ah leged, that in breach of that arrangement plaintiff sold..direct to defendant's mistnmnra. The rjlaintiff comnanv denied that their traveller had any power to enter into such an arrangement, as. that suggested by the defendant company. • i His Worship held that plaintiff was entitled to judgment, oh two grounds. One. was that the ....plaintiff's, traveller had no. power to make the, arrangement, and the second!,' -Miat defendant had not-established that the goods bought were bought subject to a con-dition,-that they, could at any timo be returned. . Judgment, was entered for the plaintiff company for the amount claimed,. £42 4s 9d and cnatg.