Scudder v. Calais Steamboat Co.

CURTIS, Circuit Justice.

This case has been argued in writing during the vacation on a demurrer to the bill. The material allegations of the bill are, that the plaintiff’s intestate, residing in California, employed one William W. Vanderbilt, to act as his agent in procuring a steamboat to be built in the city of New York. That Vanderbilt was originally instructed to contract for the building of the boat in his own name, and have it enrolled in his own name when completed, and send it to California, when the entire title was to be transferred to the intestate, unless it should be agreed that…