Gray Co. v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1971
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Tauza v. . Susquehanna Coal Co. · Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · St Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas v. Robert Alexander
Most-quoted passages
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“It appears to us that the testimony in this case discloses that Sampson was a proper agent for service in this cause. Justice Cardozo, in the case of Tauza v. Susquehanna Coal Co., supra [220 N.Y. 259, 115 N.E. 915, 918], said: `If the persons named are true agents, and if their positions are such as to lead to a just presumption that notice to them will be notice to the principal, the corporation must submit.' It will be recalled that when Sampson was served with citation he immediately mailed said citation to the home office and did so voluntarily, and thereafter voluntarily submitted a list of names of reputable attorneys in Waco to the home office. Vilter Mfg. Co. v. Rolaff, 8 Cir., 110 F.2d 491. The fact that Sampson received his compensation in the form of commissions would not change his status as a traveling salesman, Hamberger v. Marcus, 157 Pa. 133, 27 A. 681, 37 Am.St.Rep. 719; In re Dexter, 1 Cir., 158 F. 788; nor would the fact that Sampson represented other manufacturers and received his compensation for such service solely on a commission basis change his status as a traveling salesman. In re National Marble & Granite Co., D.C., 206 F. 185; In re Roebuck Weather Strip & Wire Screen Co., D.C., 180 F. 497. We are therefore of the opinion that under Article 2031 of our Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 that Jim Sampson was such traveling agent or traveling salesman of such intervener corporation within the contemplation of said statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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