Rice v. Longfellow Bros.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $1,410 with interest on account of moneys advanced as agent, and commissions. The case was tried before McGee, J., who directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $1,430.35, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
The allegations of the complaint, so far as here material, are to the effect that the defendant employed the plaintiff to purchase in Arizona for and to ship to it at Minneapolis certain fruit; that the plaintiff accepted the agency, and by direction of the defendant purchased and shipped to it two car loads of pears, for which he paid $600, and for the freight thereon $600 more, and for icing the refrigerator cars in which the pears were shipped the further sum of $180, or, in all, $1,380, which sum, with compensation for his services, he claimed to recover in this action.
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- Rice v. Longfellow Bros.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901