Creveling v. Wood & Leman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: Of May Term 1880, No. 44. Assumpsit by George R. Wood and Benjamin B. Leman, partners, under the name of Wood & Leman, against Alfred Creveling, to recover commissions for the sale of certain railroad iron.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: Of May Term 1880, No. 44. Assumpsit by George R. Wood and Benjamin B. Leman, partners, under the name of Wood & Leman, against Alfred Creveling, to recover commissions for the sale of certain railroad iron. Creveling, who is a manufacturer of railroad iron and other bar iron at the Glendower Iron Works in Danville, Pennsylvania, on the 19th of July 1877, appointed Wood & Leman, who were then iron brokers in the city of New York, his agents for New York and the eastern markets. His contract with them was made in New York, by the following…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The radical error of this case is to be found in that portion of the charge embraced in the first assignment of error, and involves the construction of the letter of the defendant .below to the plaintiffs under date of July 19th 1877. The plaintiffs having accepted the terms of said letter by an endorsement thereon, we must look to it as embodying the agreement of the parties. The effect of iwas to make the plaintiffs “selling agents ” for the defendant for the sale of his “railroad iron, merchant and muck bar for New York and eastern markets,” upon certain conditions therein named, and for…
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