5 Ga. App. 543 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
The American ’Jobbing Association brought suit .against Register, Carter & Company, to recover the purchase-price of goods sold and delivered. The jury found a verdict for the defendants, and a motion for a new trial was made by the plaintiff .and was overruled. The uncontroverted facts show the following case: Plaintiff in error was a wholesale jobber (not a corporation) of jewelry, located in Chicago, and the defendants were merchants engaged in a general merchandise business at Lois, Georgia. A traveling salesman representing the plaintiff solicited and obtained an order from the defendants for a certain amount of jewelry, which order was in writing and was signed in the name of the firm by a clerk. This order was delivered to the salesman of the ■plaintiff on condition that- he would hold the same, and not send it to his house to be filled, until the order should be approved ■or confirmed by Mr. Carter, a. member of the defendant firm.
In addition to the general grounds contained in the motion for new trial, there are several special exceptions. Under the view we-take of the merits of the controversy, these exceptions become-immaterial. We think there can be no question that the verdict was correct, under the undisputed evidence that the order for the-goods, while in writing, was delivered to the salesman of the plaintiff" with the express understanding that it was not to be delivered ’ or sent to his house until it had been approved or confirmed by Mr. Carter; that the clerk who made the order for the defendants had no authority, without such approval, to make the contract for the-firm; and that in violation of the express understanding between the-clerk and the salesman at the time the contract was delivered, the latter immediately notified his house of the order; and the erasure of the words in the contract, above indicated, confirms the state