Graves v. Miami Steamship Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the City of Hew York, first district, borough of Manhattan.
1Opinion of the CourtLeyentritt, J.
This action was brought for the breach of a contract for the shipment of freight.
The contract was signed on behalf of the defendant in the individual name of one R. H. Vaughan, its soliciting agent, and was intended to bind the defendant to carry from Galveston to Hew York all the freight shipped by the plaintiff between March 2, 1898, and September 10, 1898, at a maximum freight rate of ten cents per hundred pounds. It is recited in the contract that a difference had arisen between the parties with reference to the performance by the defendant of the terms of a former contract between them,…
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