Robertson v. Scales

The defendants,' Scales <& Oibson, having dissolved their commercial partnership and commenced the liquidation of their affairs, placed in the hands of Scales & Wallace, attorneys-at-law, for collection, notes and accounts to the amount of some twenty thousand dollars. They afterwards liquidated their indebtedness to the plaintiffs, and gave to them their promissory notes payable at certain periods after date, at the office of Seaman, Peck & Co. of the city of New Orleans, and at the same time directed their attorneys, Scales & Wallace, to remit *546to Seaman, Peck & Co., out of the first moneys…