Business Law Today, Comprehensive 10th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 10

Right to Recover Damages. Woodridge USA Properties, L.P, bought eighty-seven commercial truck trailers from Southeast Trailer Mart, Inc. (STM). Gerald McCarty, an independent sales agent who arranged the deal, showed Woodridge the documents of title. They did not indicate that Woodridge was the buyer. Woodridge asked McCarty to sell the trailers, and within three months, they were sold. McCarty did not give the proceeds to Woodridge, however. Woodridge-without mentioning the title documents-asked STM to refund the contract price. STM refused. Does Woodridge have a right to recover damages from STM Explain.