Thacher v. Moors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for the conversion of 184 bags of wool. Writ dated January 12, 1878. Trial in this court, without a jury, at September term 1879, before Ames, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, in substance as follows: At the time of the transactions hereinafter stated, the plaintiff was a merchant, doing business in Boston under the name of H. C. Thacher and Company, and was engaged in buying, selling and receiving consignments of wool for sale on…
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Tort for the conversion of 184 bags of wool. Writ dated January 12, 1878. Trial in this court, without a jury, at September term 1879, before Ames, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, in substance as follows: At the time of the transactions hereinafter stated, the plaintiff was a merchant, doing business in Boston under the name of H. C. Thacher and Company, and was engaged in buying, selling and receiving consignments of wool for sale on commission, and making advances upon said consignments ; and the defendant was a banker, doing business in Boston under the…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
It is convenient to consider this case, in the first instance, as if Jones originally had no interest in this wool, and had none at any time except what he derived from the plaintiff, and then to consider what is the effect upon the rights of the parties of the facts, that the wool was originally bought by Fessenden “upon joint account with Jones, under an arrangement between them, by which Fessenden was to buy the wool of the farmers in Vermont, and Jones was to find the money (either furnishing it himself or procuring some one else to advance upon the wool) and have control of the sale of…
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