Weed v. Adams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for a foreclosure, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield county, and reserved, upon facts found by a committee, for the advice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The respondent was the lessee of a cotton plantation in the state of Louisiana in the year 1864. The petitioner was the principal member of the firm of Weed, Witters & Co., commission merchants and grocers, of New Orleans-. Weed, Witters & Co. and the respondent entered into a written agreement, in which it was stipulated that Weed, Witters & Co. should make advances of cash and supplies, for the purpose of carrying on the plantation, and that the respondent should ship and consign the crops made thereon, when ready for market, to Weed, Witters & Co., to be by them sold in the usual and best…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- William & James Brown & Co. v. McGranSupreme Court of the United States · 1840
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