Tucker v. Woolsey
New York Supreme Court
The action was brought to recover a balance of accounts claimed to be due from defendants to plaintiff. An accounting was had before the referee, and he holding that the defendants were not indebted in any sum upon such accounting reported dismissing the complaint with costs. From the judgment entered upon this report the plaintiff appealed. The facts relating to the questions raised upon the accounting sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtIngraham, P. J.
The appeal in this case is from a judgment before a referee, and applies to some items of an account which must be separately considered.
The plaintiffs were merchants in Paris, and had accounts and dealings with the defendants in New York. They sent an agent to New Yorlc to look for orders in their business. They sent with him seven large trunks filled with goods, and gave him a letter of introduction to the defendants, asking for him their kind services as regards advice. Another letter was afterward sent, saying to defendants, “ any assistance or advice you may render him in the prosecution…
2Cited by2 opinions
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