Legal Opinion
Lafitte v. Shawcross
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
Decided January 15, 1882PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BilliNgs, D. J.
In this case the plaintiff bad been the agent of the defendant in the purchase of cotton. His commissions ordinarily had been f per cent, upon the purchases. To recover these commis*520sions upon that basis this suit is brought, it appeared in evidence that some difference existed between the plaintiff and defendant as to what the commissions shotild be for the months of September, October, and November, 1880, and that on the eighteenth day of November the plaintiff handed to the defendant the following letter, signed by him:
“New ORLEANS, 18th November, 1880.
“R. Shawcf'oss, Esq. —…
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