40 Mo. App. 162 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1890
This is an action for the amount alleged to have been paid defendant by the plaintiff for a Domestic sewing, machine. The case originated, and was tried, before a justice of the peace in Miller county, was appealed to the circuit court, where, on trial before court and jury, a verdict and judgment was had for the defendant and plaintiff has appealed.
Porth is a merchant at Jefferson City, and had the exclusive agency for the sale of the Domestic sewing-machine in Miller county, and by agreement the price of the machine to be sold by plaintiff was fixed at forty dollars. In the conduct of the business plaintiff came to the knowledge of the fact that defendant Lux, residing in Miller county, had purchased from some one a “Domestic” machine, and at the price of thirty-five dollars. Plaintiff thereupon complained to the company, his principal; and upon the denial.that any such sale had been made by the company, plaintiff negotiated with defendant for the purchase of said machine, resulting in plaintiff acquiring the same in consideration of another machine and ten dollars paid defendant. After thus securing the Lux machiné it was found to have been stolen from Wood & Co., dealers in St. Louis, and to the rightful owners plaintiff surrendered the said machine. Defendant refused to return to plaintiff the purchase price thereof, whereupon this action was brought.
At the trial in the circuit court, various instructions were given, and which in the main fairly declared the law governing the case. Instruction number 3, however, given at the instance of the defendant, was entirely outside the substantial issues of the case, and