Fairley v. B. R. Smith & Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action for damages tried at Fall Term, 1881, of UNION Superior Court, before Avery, J. Defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
In tbe trial of the issue of damages it became material to ascertain the market price of cotton in Boston between the 1st and 13th days of February 1876, and to prove the value, one Townsend, a clerk and book-keeper in the plaintiff’s employmerit during that period, and who had usually assisted in weighing the cotton bought and sent off, was introduced as a witness on his behalf.' He testified to a knowledge of the market value of cotton in Boston at the date mentioned, and that he derived his information from reading the market reports in the Charlotte Observer, a daily newspaper published…
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