William & James Brown & Co. v. McGran
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the' United States, for the District of Georgia. In the Inferior Court of Richmond county, in the state - of Georgia, Thomas M'Gran, the defendant, instituted a suit by attachment against the plaintiffs in error, to recover damages for the sale of two hundred bales of cotton, shipped by him. to the plaintiffs in error, as his factors; the cotton having been sold for a less price than the same would have produced had the sales been made…
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the' United States, for the District of Georgia. In the Inferior Court of Richmond county, in the state - of Georgia, Thomas M'Gran, the defendant, instituted a suit by attachment against the plaintiffs in error, to recover damages for the sale of two hundred bales of cotton, shipped by him. to the plaintiffs in error, as his factors; the cotton having been sold for a less price than the same would have produced had the sales been made according to the instructions of the shipper. The declaration contained three counts, all upon the shipment of the two hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the District of Georgia, rendered in an action in which M‘Gran, the defendant in error, was originally plaintiff.
In the spring of 1833, M‘Gran, a merchant in Georgia, shipped two hundred bales of cotton, consigned to the plaintiffs in error, a house of trade in Liverpool, England, there doing business under the firm of William and James Brown and Company, for sale on his account. The shipment was made under an arrangement with the house of Brown, Brothers, and Company, of New York, composed (as seems admitted) either wholly or in…
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