Campbell v. Bradley

By the court:

Preston, J.

This is one of the great number of cases, in which the buyers and sellers of the vast products in our market, are defrauded by fraudulent speculators, and in which one or the other, or both, must suffer.

It is clearly established by the evidence, that Bradley, Wilson Sf Co., on the 3d of June, 1851, through the instrumentality of N. B. Keene, a cotton broker, sold to one Simpson, 734 bales of cotton. The cotton was on storage, in a press, and on the same day they gave the following order, to the keeper of the press: “ A. Penn, Esq., Union Press, will please deliver to…