Nickerson v. Soesman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract. Writ dated April 28, 1865. The material part of the agreed facts was as follows: Since March 9, 1860, the plaintiffs have been merchants at Boston under the firm of F. Nickerson & Co.; the defendants merchants at Paramaribo in Surinam under the firm of Soesman Brothers.
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Contract. Writ dated April 28, 1865. The material part of the agreed facts was as follows: Since March 9, 1860, the plaintiffs have been merchants at Boston under the firm of F. Nickerson & Co.; the defendants merchants at Paramaribo in Surinam under the firm of Soesman Brothers. On that date they entered into written articles, under seal, in which it was recited that, as the plaintiffs proposed to put one or more vessels into the trade between the United States and Surinam, the defendants should “ receive the consignments of all vessels and cargoes that the said F. Nickerson & Co. may…
1Opinion of the CourtBigelow, C. J.
It is not disputed on the part of the defendants, that, under the contract of March 9,1860, they became the agents of the plaintiffs in Surinam to receive consignments of cargoes of merchandise, to make sales thereof, to collect the proceeds, and therewith to purchase return cargoes, and to hold any residue in their hands in the shape of goods, accounts, notes and other evidences of debt, as the property of the plaintiffs, and on the termination of the agency to deliver the same on demand to the plaintiffs or to their order. Nor is it open to question that as between the parties the legal…
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