Center v. Stockton

The plaintiff, as surviving partner of the house of Ripley, Center & co. of New-York, claims from the defendants the reimbursement of a balance due them upon a sum of money, which they advanced on a shipment of tobacco to them consigned, but the sale of which fell short of the amount so advanced.

The principal ground of defence is that the tobacco was not the property of the defendants, but that they shipped it as agents for Seth Briggs & co. the owners thereof to the knowledge of the plaintiff, and that, if any thing is due on account of that tobacco, it is due by the owners, not by the…