Chandler v. Coe
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, by Horace J. Chandler against E. S. Coe & S. R. Scarce, brought to recover a balance claimed to be due from the defendants for cutting and drawing logs in the winter of 1865 and 1866, and for delivering the same in the Androscoggin river in the spring of 1866. Plea, the general issue.
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Assumpsit, by Horace J. Chandler against E. S. Coe & S. R. Scarce, brought to recover a balance claimed to be due from the defendants for cutting and drawing logs in the winter of 1865 and 1866, and for delivering the same in the Androscoggin river in the spring of 1866. Plea, the general issue. The writ is dated October 8, 1870. It appeared that some time in October, 1865, the plaintiff and one L. E. Dunn had a conversation in regard to cutting and hauling the logs; that the plaintiff explored the land from which they were to be cut, and, during the latter part of November, 1865, made a…
1Opinion of the CourtHibbard, J.
The plaintiff claims to be entitled to recover against the defendants, for labor performed by him under a contract entered into with L. E. Dunn, and reduced to writing and signed by Dunn in his own name, upon the ground that the real contracting party was the defendants carrying on business in the name of L. E. Dunn, who acted as their agent in making the contract, and so informed the plaintiff at the time of making it. The plaintiff’s position is not merely that Dunn was the agent of the defendants, duly authorized to make the written contract in their behalf, which the plaintiff understood…
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