Snell v. Dwight
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by Thomas Snell, Samuel S. Keith and Abner Taylor, members of the firm of Snell, Taylor & Co., against Daniel A. Dwight, Benjamin F. Nourse and George M. Gill, for an account. Hearing before Ames, J., who ruled that the bill could be maintained, and referred the case to a master. The defendants appealed. The facts of the case appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
In March, 1865, the defendant George M. Gill made an agreement with Samuel Tate to bring a steamboat into the Yazoo River in Mississippi, within the confederate lines, laden with supplies to be exchanged for cotton. Tate was to furnish the cotton, in payment for the supplies, under an arrangement which he had made with the confederate government through its cotton agent, and he was to receive one half the profits of the transaction. On March 7, 1865, Gill made a contract in writing with the plaintiffs, the owners of the steamboat S. B. Young, then lying at Memphis and laden with supplies, to…
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