Langdon v. Roane's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Court of Chancery, sitting for Greene county. The intestate of the defendant in error exhibited his bill against the plaintiffs on the 8th January, 1839, in which it is alleged, that Messrs. Lea & Langdon, two of the defendants, were commission merchants for the complainant from August, 1835, to the spring of 1838 — bought his supplies in Mobile, advanced money for him, and sold his cotton there.
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Writ of error to the Court of Chancery, sitting for Greene county. The intestate of the defendant in error exhibited his bill against the plaintiffs on the 8th January, 1839, in which it is alleged, that Messrs. Lea & Langdon, two of the defendants, were commission merchants for the complainant from August, 1835, to the spring of 1838 — bought his supplies in Mobile, advanced money for him, and sold his cotton there. On the 10th November, 1836, L. & L. presented their account to the complainant, which amounted, after an allowance of all credits, to the sum of three thousand two hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLIER, C. J.'
-The frame of the bill does not require that the state of the accounts between the intestate and Messrs. Lea & Langdon, previous to the 10th November, 1836, should be examined; for although the account rendered by the latter, on that day, was not strictly correct, yet the error was admitted and corrected by the parties themselves. [Davis v. Spurling, 1 Russ. & My. Rep. 64.] We have only to inquire whether there was due to Lea & Langdon, on the 28th of October, 1837, the sum for which they received the intestate’s note of that date? It cannot be intended that there was a mistake…
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