14 S.D. 1 | S.D. | 1900
At the trial of this action to recover an agent’s commission on certain sales of threshing machinery there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. The first cause of action stated in the complaint is based upon a written contract between the parties, by which respondent is authorized to sell appellant’s .threshing machines at list price in certain territory in this state on commission, and the second cause of action is to recover a commission of 10 per cent, pursuant to an oral agreement subsequently made, and by which respondent aided in procuring a purchaser for a machine sold by appellant in the city of Minneapolis, to be used within the territory covered by respondent’s written contract. Neither of the sales for which respondent recovered his commission were actually closed by him, but there was evidence tending to show that, in accordance with his contract, he paid freight on appe!1 ant’s machinery, kept it in stock at his warehouse in the city of Watertown, and employed men to canvass the territory therefor,