Standard Scale & Supply Co. v. Reiter
Opinion of the Court
(after stating the facts as above).
The exception was “to the last instruction that there is no provision in the contract requiring him to establish any particular business, or any particular volume of business, and we will ask the court to instruct” that if defendant in error represented that he would obtain representation for these various articles mentioned in the contract, and that the volume would be not less than $200,000 a year, and that the contract was made in reliance on this, and he actually sold less than $15,000, then there was a right of discharge. The exception and the request must be read together, and they show that plaintiff in error’s theory is that these alleged representations as to every article mentioned in the contract and as to the amount of business to be done were binding obligations. There was no error in charging that there was no requirement in the sense of specific obligation to establish any specific number of side lines or produce any specific volume of business. The oral testimony was not admitted for this purpose, and’ was not directed, in the former opinion, to be admitted for this purpose, but only for the purpose of showing in a general way the duties of the manager, or perhaps, also, the relative duties of manager and owner. This being so, there was no obligation to produce $200,000 worth of business, and, of course, the instruction asked for is clearly wrong.
We find no error in the judgment of the District Court, and the same is therefore affirmed. •
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