Arrott v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action on the case brought by Andrew Brown against James Arrett.' The plaintiff was a manufacturer of linen goods, at Dundee, in Scotland, and had made several consignments of his goods to the defendant, who was a merchant in Philadelphia, for the purpose of sale on commission.
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This was a writ of Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action on the case brought by Andrew Brown against James Arrett.' The plaintiff was a manufacturer of linen goods, at Dundee, in Scotland, and had made several consignments of his goods to the defendant, who was a merchant in Philadelphia, for the purpose of sale on commission. This action was brought to recover damages for an alleged breach of the defendant’s duty as agent, in respect to the sale of certain of the goods. On the trial in the Court below, before Pettit,…
1Opinion of the Court
*23The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
The general rule certainly is, that for an omission to keep the principal regularly informed of the agent’s "transactions, and the state of the interests entrusted to him, the damages are to be proportioned to the actual loss. In Harvey v. Turner, however, on the authority of which, the jury received the direction that is now the subject of error, it was ruled, and perhaps for the first time, that where the information transmitted is such as may induce the principal, in the adaptation of his operations to his means, to rely on an…
2Cited by4 opinions
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