103 Iowa 586 | Iowa | 1897
I. This cause was determined upon the following agreed statement of facts: “This is an action in replevin, in which the Brown Shoe Company, ,a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Missouri, is plaintiff, and Frank Hunt, of Sioux City, Iowa, is defendant. That immediately prior to and within the last two years before the commencement of this action, the defendant was the agent and general manager of and for Lola M. Hunt, the proprietor of the New Oxford Hotel, in Sioux City, Iowa. That said hotel was kept for the general accommodation of the general traveling public. That one M. K. Sheehan applied for and was furnished meals, lodgings, extras, and accommodations usually furnished the general public at inns and hotels as a guest of said hotel, which said accommodations were furnished by defendant. That said accommodations so furnished were of the value of $68.60, all of which remains due and unpaid. That, at the time the accommodations for which defendant claims a lien were furnished to the said M. K. Sheehan, the said Sheehan was the authorized traveling agent and salesman of the plaintiff and engaged in the prosecution of its business; and that the goods described in plaintiff’s petition, and taken under the writ of replevin herein, were the samples of stock and the cases containing the same furnished by the plaintiff to the said M. K. Sheehan, for his use in the prosecution of the plaintiff’s business. That the amount