Speyer v. Colgate
New York Supreme Court
APEAL by the defendants from a judgment recovered on the report of a referee. (S. C., reported briefly, 4 Hun, 622.)
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Daniels, J.
The defendants were the plaintiff’s brokers and agents in the city of New York, with whom he kept his financial accounts, and through whom he bought and sold gold and provided for payment of his drafts. Under his authority and direction they purchased for him in the month of January, 1865, $40,000 in gold. And the plaintiff entered into two agreements with B. Meyberg for the sale of the same gold. By one he agreed to deliver to Meyberg, who also contracted to receive it from him, $20,000 in American gold, at two dollars and five cents, not before the 1st of February,…
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