Sacalaris v. Eureka & Palisade Railroad
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Eureka County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The evidence is sufficient to justify a verdict for plaintiff. Paquin was the agent of Sacalaris, with authority to sell the wood in controversy.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, Eureka County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The evidence is sufficient to justify a verdict for plaintiff. Paquin was the agent of Sacalaris, with authority to sell the wood in controversy. Sacalaris, by permitting Paquiu to take possession of the wood and haul it to Eureka, with power to sell an unmarked, and, to third persons, undistinguisliable half, and by knowingly permitting and authorizing him to sell and dispose of a half, with knowledge that the whole was being placed upon the ground of a party to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Belknap, J.:
Plaintiff was the owner of a quantity of cordwood in the vicinity of the town of Eureka. He contracted with one Paquin to haul the wood to the town, and agreed to pay him one-half of the wood he should haul for his services. According]}', Paquin hauled four hundred and sixty-four cords of wood. Fifty cords of this wood were deposited in the immediate neighborhood of the depot of defendant, eighty-five cords at a point in the town called “the Chinese wash-house,” and the remainder (with which we are not concerned) at other places. These two lots of wood were the…
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