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12 Vt. 13

Starr v. Huntley

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 15, 1840

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1840-01-15

This was an action of book account. Judgment to account having been rendered, auditors were appointed, who reported that the plaintiff, who was a manufacturer of tin ware, employed the defendant, in April, 1834, to peddle wares for him and agreed to pay the defendant fifteen dollars per month for so doing; that, under this contract, the defendant received the articles charged in the plaintiff’s account, and spent some part of his time from that period until the fall of 1836,…

Decided 1840-01-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collamer, J.

¶2— The plaintiff sold to the defendant property which the defendant had previously received as plaintiff’s agent. This clearly authorised the plaintiff to charge it on book. This does not fall within the doctrine that articles, not chargeable at the time of delivery, cannot become so by a subsequent contingency. If it were so, no property could be sold and charged which the vendee then held as bailee. *15Neither does the fact that some of the articles might have been sold by the defendant, as agent, before he agreed to be the purchaser, alter the right to charge. When, by the agreement of the parties, the agency of the defendant was rescinded, and the defendant became a purchaser, then the plaintiff had all the rights of a vendor, including the right to charge on book. It is the same as any case where, by the agreement of the parties, a charge is transferred on book from one man to another.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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