Bradstreet v. Everson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 99, to October and November Term 1871. This was an action of assumpsit brought June 19th 1870 ; W. H. Everson, Barclay Preston and C. L. Grant, trading as Ever-son, Preston & Co. against Henry Bradstreet, C. H. Ranney, M. Hoffman and L. B. Reese, trading as J. M. Bradstreet & Son.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 99, to October and November Term 1871. This was an action of assumpsit brought June 19th 1870 ; W. H. Everson, Barclay Preston and C. L. Grant, trading as Ever-son, Preston & Co. against Henry Bradstreet, C. H. Ranney, M. Hoffman and L. B. Reese, trading as J. M. Bradstreet & Son. The plaintiffs’ affidavit of claim averred that on the 2d of June the defendants were carrying on a mercantile agency in Pittsburg, and had agents throughout the United States, one branch of their business being to make collections through their agents; on…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
— There are but two questions in this cause which are required to be noticed. First, whether J. M. Bradstreet & Son authorized the receipt of June 2d 1865, by which they undertook to collect the claims mentioned in it, and, second, the nature of their liability. It is undisputed that J. M. Bradstreet & Son had a branch office in Pittsburg, of what they termed their “ Improved *133Mercantile Agency,” and that the persons employed in this office were their agents. They only deny that their business was a collecting agency, asserting that it was…
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