White v. Kearney

The plaintiff alleges that he contracted with the defendants, Alfred Kearney & Co., through their agent, Alden Miller, to sell and deliver to them in New Orleans, sixteen hundred barrels of Thomaston lime, for which they were to pay *496him at the rate of #1 48 per barrel, free of commissions. He says that he brought the lime to New Orleans, and offered it to the defendants, who refused to take it; he then had it sold, and now claims the sum of $768, as the difference between the price for which it sold, and that the defendants agreed to give for it. The firm of Alfred Kearney & Co. having been…