E. H. Perry & Co. v. Langbehn

This case is here on certified questions from the Honorable <Jourx of Civil Appeals for the First District.

E. H. Perry & Company, a corporation, cotton exporters, and Langbehn Brothers, shipowners, entered into the agreement shown by the cotton freight engagement note, which reads as follows:

"Cotton Freight Engagement Note.

HLZ

Langbehn Bros., Steamship Agents.

No. 486

Galveston, Texas, March 27, 1916.

"Messrs. E. H. Perry & Co.,

"We beg to confirm your engagement of room for 3000 — Three Thousand — Bales of Standard Compressed Cotton from Galveston to Genoa — (a 300 cts. per 100 lbs., basis 100 A1…